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Ask HN: Developer Certification?

2 pointsby jsd198210 months ago
I&#x27;ve found myself recently out of work and back on the job market so I&#x27;m considering taking some popular software engineer certification exams to spice up the resume a bit.<p>*I&#x27;m wondering what everyone&#x27;s opinions are on the value of certifications for software engineering specifically?* Any other related opinions on the matter are welcome as well.

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caprock10 months ago
I&#x27;ve rarely seen such things be valued in software engineering. I can&#x27;t even think of a decent software dev cert.<p>For ops there are some vendors specific certs like the AWS or Microsoft certifications that used to carry weight. Currently, with the increased use of cloud services I&#x27;d probably lean toward AWS for SWE too.<p>In the past, the most valued certs were from Cisco for network engineering. Those were &#x2F; are really good networking education even if you don&#x27;t care about the cert.