GitHub Certifications (Beta)

Ugh, this has Microsoft&#x27;s playbook written all over it. Introduce a certification, thus increasing the gap between developers who (had their employee) pay Microsoft and developers that didn&#x27;t. Conflate a generic concept (Git in this case) with Microsoft&#x27;s specific implementation (Github), muddying the difference in managers&#x27; lexicons. Attempt to set Github as a standard to reach in everyone&#x27;s mind.<p>I mean there&#x27;s a certificaiton, so it has to be something we shouldn&#x27;t miss out on, right?

The main problematic thing about this is that it can be used as a way for Microsoft to push their beliefs and agendas. It further centralizes git even more.<p>For example (extreme case to make a point), imagine if the questions were like:<p>1) Which is the most reliable git platform? (a) github (b) gitlab (c) gitweb<p>2) Which is the best license for new code? (a) MIT (b) GPLv3 (c) ALv2<p>3) Which is better for coding? (a) spaces (b) tabs (c) both<p>The point is that Microsoft shouldn&#x27;t be the central authority for git things. Lets make the internet, the web, and development in general more decentralized.

Slightly off topic, but the url seems to be conflict with a user called &quot;certifications&quot;. You can find that user using GitHub api or Mobile app, but you can&#x27;t view his profile page on desktop.

Oh my. This is the first new thing that&#x27;s very &quot;Enterprise Microsoft&quot; since they bought it, isn&#x27;t it?

This bullshit certification thing that is coming a global trend is going too far!<p>Look at the sample questions, they stuff your head with useless marketing crap and idiots will have to be thankful to have been brain washed...

I really don&#x27;t understand those certificate business on computer related skills. It changes too rapidly and certificate of last year doesn&#x27;t guarantee the current skill.<p>Anyway, I quickly glanced the sample exam questions.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;certifications" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;certifications</a><p>&gt; Which statements are true about GitHub Marketplace?<p>Honestly, I have never heard about the term GitHub Marketplace at all. Frankly, I don&#x27;t want to relies on random proprietary SaaS apps somebody selling on random software distribution platforms.<p>&gt; What is a workflow?<p>I don&#x27;t know. Isn&#x27;t it possible to (indirectly)achieve every candidates by GitHub Actions? Also, the term is used vague even by GitHub itself. The GitHub documents refer to flow or actions or whatever.<p>&gt; Which statements are true about organizational membership<p>I don&#x27;t know. Is reciting this knowledge helps on any way meaningful?<p>&gt; How does GitHub alert you for security vulnerabilities?<p>How do I suppose to know that without getting any alert previosuly? By reading every GitHub documents and committing it to the brain?

I hope this dies. I&#x27;ve been around long enough to remember the hell of Java certifications in the late 90s.

I&#x27;ve seen those with AWS certifications be unable to put anything together on AWS and I&#x27;ve seen exceptional engineers with plenty of production AWS experience fail the certifications.<p>Security experts fail to get CISSP qualifications, while those who can barely use a computer pass. The security industry considers CISSP to be a bit of a joke for this reason.<p>This sort of certification is in my experience, sought out by those who don&#x27;t have much else to show, and therefore is often correlated with not being very good. You can learn by rote and pass with no understanding to tick an easy box.<p>I think it&#x27;s a shame GitHub is getting into this, but cynically it makes sense for them.

Who is seriously looking for these things? If you are still hiring based upon what certificates a person has, I have some really shitty news for you.<p>If I wanted to know if someone could use GitHub, I would ask them to get on a Teams screenshare and tell them to set up a pull request for something quick, like the repo&#x27;s README.md, link it to the issue and adjust labels. That would tell me in 60 seconds everything I needed to know about the experience level someone has with GitHub.<p>Anything beyond code, issues, labels and pull requests is just one-time configuration or occasional project management duty. Not really a whole lot of complex scary shit going on here. I don&#x27;t really see the need to start credentialing people for operating within what is arguably the <i>least</i> risky domain for newcomers when it comes to software engineering. Absolutely worst case you just revert your prior commit or re-open the issue...

The outline for the &quot;certification&quot; is like a sales manual for the business. It&#x27;s like the exam for being an outbound call center marketeer.

One of the example questions is &quot;Which statements are true about GitHub Marketplace?&quot; Imagine failing to get certified by Github because, despite knowing how to use git and github well, you don&#x27;t know enough about Github Marketplace. Worse than that, imagine <i>not getting a job</i> because you don&#x27;t know enough about Github Marketplace to get the right certification. Wow.

I’m going to create a certification for an “ls” command.

I bet a majority of critics here have a Github account and work actively on the platform. The good news is that we still have the freedom of choice, so, take a step back and resume the control of your code and data. At least think about it.<p>Pushing bureaucratic certification is a step back in history and paves the way towards corporate centralization &amp; exploitation.<p>Look out for alternatives, you can live well without Github stars for prestige and I hope also without Github certificates for your career. After all, Git was made for decentralization, I do not want Microsoft to dictate the future well-being of (professional) developers.

Embrace git by acquiring GitHub.<p>Now extending by adding certification (&amp; some manufactured market value).

We will soon be able to hire github certified engineers. Thanks Microsoft, talent driven towards the skills our industry needs will make us all more productive: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;rR4n-0KYeKQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;rR4n-0KYeKQ</a>

Dumb enterprisey &#x27;certification&#x27; aside, I can see the free course being effectively used during onboarding (esp. intern&#x2F;grads, but anyone can not have used GitHub or even git before, just because it&#x27;s not what previous employer used) at which point being &#x27;certified&#x27; becomes a handy &#x27;get out of going through that again&#x27; card...

LOL. Judging by all the comments here, maybe they shouldn&#x27;t have branded it as &quot;certification&quot;. I think &quot;flare&quot; or &quot;badge&quot; would have been better marketing.<p>Or something like... oh I am a level 99 Git wizard... This will definitely help me get dates.

My disappointment is immeasurable. This is going to cause a worse Github culture to emerge.

Is it April 1st already?

It is about git and Github so hopefully it will focus more things like digging out of rebase hell instead of the insanity Github actions.

Thanks for making us jump through unnecessary hoops to appease future management wankers, Microsoft.

When hiring, I ignore certifications at best and actively discount them at worst.<p>These things generally mean very little and seem designed to extract money from large corporations with an education budget.

I am concerned that GitHub is about to become LinkedIn, a fate worse than death. Hopefully that’s just cynicism speaking, though.

I hate these types of certifications if only for the fact that I get asked by people outside the development community if getting the cert will help them enter the community and get a job.<p>I always have to give them a deflationary speech about how software development is about the practice and not a one-time certification.

It&#x27;s funny how we as an industry don&#x27;t like certifications, yet we all agree that our interviewing process is fundamentally broken. So what&#x27;s it to be for the future of hiring?

I was hoping for some CA that hackers could use for stuff like IoT. Some semi-distributed point where you could handle individual or groups of devices.

While I agree with everyone this certification is probably useless (idk a single hiring manager in my company that told me oh hey the certifications on this candidate are really stellar) and that Microsoft CAN have some hidden agenda here...<p>I would disagree in saying that Microsoft is making Github shit. There have been so many good things Github released since Microsoft took over (Github sponsoring, Github actions, bunch of other things) IMO it&#x27;s been a major benefit. I&#x27;m hoping they don&#x27;t screw it up

Tf. I have avoided employers that required certifications and will continue to do so.

There&#x27;s the Microsoft I know. What an absolutely terrible idea.

Going full enterprise.

this is worse than MOOC certifications, mean nothing

what value I get for having this certification?

Second E nearing third E.

Whats next? bash certs?

Stupid shit

LOL! Advice to juniors: these &quot;certifications&quot; are considered a red flag at most companies you would want to work for. So unless you want to work for Durgasoft™, don&#x27;t put them on your resume.

No, thanks. Github was dead to me after they held &quot;diversity&quot; conferences telling people that &quot;tech is not for white folks to lead&quot; and the MS acquisition just sealed the deal. This just reaffirms it again, I will never drive any business or money towards Github.