Certification, can you get by without it when you have experience?

[wackadu]

Or is it a necessary evil?

[DaveB]

Certification in what?

Most of the peolpe posting on here are certainly certifiable to one degree or another

[wackadu]

certification as in the usual Microsoft bollocks, or whatever Sun,Oracle, etc.. crap there is.

[ratewhore]

sometimes you can - sometimes you can't...


Glad I could help.

[wackadu]

At least thats cleared that up.

[TheMonkey]

I'm certified in nothing. Never hurt me!

[DimPrawn]

Or is it a necessary evil?

Being certified in any particular field will do no harm. By the same token it might make no difference whatsoever.

This means if you have nothing better to do and you can do it at low cost, it is definately worthwhile, otherwise, don't bother.

I'm talking about Microsoft Certs specifically. Others may be a different story.

The MS certs have been massively devalued by India giving them away for a couple of quid due to their built in ability to do corruption and lies at very low cost.

[Lockhouse]

All certification does is make it easier to get iinterviews. You can't get out your certificate in the middle of a technical test and say "look what I got!". It means nothing without experience.

[ratewhore]

All certification does is make it easier to get iinterviews. You can't get out your certificate in the middle of a technical test and say "look what I got!". It means nothing without experience.

Although there are those that do exactly that. Speaking of which - I still have my O level certificates somewhere. I'll have to dig them out for the next interview...

[kramer]

it does show interest and helps bolster you r claims of knowing this thing or that.. having said that i have been on the MCSD track for 10 years and still only sat one exam...