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Follow the money and you will learn the truth. It is cheaper to sit a test, even including "prep" materials (answers) than to spend two years in a tech school with lab time. It is cheaper for companies to hire evil HR reps, who know nothing about what the positions they hire for really require, and sort em out by certs/degrees (oh yes, there are EE mills too). This farce has gone so far that the government is conducting a witch hunt now (at lower levels only of course) to find people in critical IT and management posts who worked into the system with mail order dergees in theology etc. No one but a fool should ever hire someone based on a piece of paper. Would they buy a car from a picture of it? Evil HR directors majoring in EEO probably do just that.
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AndAlso  rapson | 04/27/04
False sense of security  Chad_z | 04/27/04
Plus many MSCE's can't do the work.  maxo_z | 04/27/04
No need to even memorize the questions  voska | 04/27/04
No help as long as bean-counters exist  AbsolutelyNot | 04/27/04
many of the best developers I know  V Sanders | 04/28/04
That's because 'professionalism' can't be certified  escoles@... | 04/28/04
Offshoring jobs = Cheap-o wages bottom line  Enterprise Analyst | 04/28/04
As far as I'm concerned...  dpayne@... | 04/28/04
Redhat certified can't do the work either  Enterprise Analyst | 04/28/04
Not a microsoft bash- it was a MSCE bash.  maxo_z | 04/28/04
RHCE  SC-man | 04/29/04
Certification  Tinkerer62 | 05/06/04
I don't need no stinking badge!  DavidSommers | 04/28/04
re: I don't need no stinking badge  egurski | 04/28/04
MCSE's are not the same continued  Enterprise Analyst | 04/28/04
No- Computing Degrees have a different issue.  maxo_z | 04/28/04
You must have a complex  Enterprise Analyst | 04/28/04
Complex?  bluescreen_z | 04/29/04
Certifications are worthless  voska | 04/29/04
They're getting that way  AbsolutelyNot | 04/29/04
Certification  Tinkerer62 | 05/06/04
That is actually the correct approach  JeremyBarker | 05/02/04
How true  Mark Miller | 05/03/04
Huh, they're still doing that?  Mark Miller | 05/03/04
You Got to Be Joking  siliconrebel | 04/28/04
It's Good For One Thing  wbs00001 | 04/29/04
Education and Certifications  SC-man | 04/29/04
But people do not get new hearts every 3 years.  maxo_z | 05/03/04
I would also say the same about OO programming  WyldOne | 04/30/04
OO Programming  wbs00001 | 05/02/04
Software is now rushed out to meet market pressures  louiebergsagel@... | 04/30/04
I agree. Very real-world  Mark Miller | 05/03/04
Certification  Marlene_z | 05/04/04
Engineering vs. IT: Emphasis on certification misses the point badly  mkern | 05/06/04
One type of certification will work: licensing  mkern | 05/06/04
Licensing  Tinkerer62 | 05/07/04

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