Where I work (we sell software) there's nobody in engineering with certifications. IT has all the certifications. I've been working since the mid-1990s and t

Where I work (we sell software) there's nobody in engineering with certifications. IT has all the certifications. I've been working since the mid-1990s and this has almost always held true. No one building the stuff has a certification in it. The people who buy it and install it tend to have the certifications. Over the years I've seen a fair # of hilarious exchanges where someone with a Certification in X tries to tell someone else they're wrong and then gets embarrassed when they are told the person they're arguing with is the inventor or holds the patent on X. So many of these certifications also seem to train someone to buy products from a company. Our IT guys are always super sure we need products they got certified in, to the point it seems fishy. My gut feeling is this article is right on the money. The smartest people with formal education are more than capable of teaching themselves this stuff. If you've got a quality degree you shouldn't need a certificate in X to implement X in your product. The certificate won't cover that anyway since no one has ever integrated it into the new product you're building anyway.