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And let's not pretend there aren't plenty of bozos who don't really know what they're doing in other fields. It's entirely unclear to me whether certification helps.

Previous comment on the subject: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37989386




It's entirely unclear to me whether certification helps.

I've worked a lot in civil engineering, and honestly the worst working civil engineer I've worked with was still a lot better at their job than the worst working programmer I've worked with.


The thing is, I've worked with people who literally cannot program at all, and both of those also had college degrees.

I suppose some kind of certification can set something of a minimum baseline, but I don't know – colour me skeptical.




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