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0 pointsdspillett9y ago0 comments

>* being hired because they passed a test they cheated on*

The certificate shouldn't matter in the interview itself - it is just a way to pair down the choices of who you interview when you have many candidates. If you have knowledgeable people in the interview process (i.e. at least have a dev present for a dev interview, not just managers or HR people) then you should be able to catch those that don't really have the skills.

Heck, even people who genuinely have a certificate might be rubbish overall but revised well for the exam days - you'll hopefully weed those out in a good interview process too.

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unprepare9y ago

>The certificate shouldn't matter in the interview itself

Have you had many IT interviews? I have, they are vastly non-technical interviews.

Unless you count "have you ever used #CommonSoftware? how about #SlightlylessCommonSoftware?" as a technical interview.

I'm an IT administrator, not a programmer, so i'm speaking to my experience in that field, I am not trying to make any claims about how programming interviews work.

I've never had a whiteboard in an interview, I have in two interviews ever been asked to walk through a diagnostic process for problems, or asked any infrastructure or network design/architecture questions.

Its worth noting I work and live in Detroit Michigan, so I'm not exactly interviewing with major technology companies regularly. But I have worked for MSPs which glossed over technical interviews in favor of culture fit as well. (MSPs are especially incentivised to have employees with certs, they get discounts and kickbacks)

devonkim9y ago

The discounts and kickbacks matter far less than referrals from the major tech company vendor for, say, integration work that's contracted. Most tech work outside major cities comes down to basic IT or contracting for the big tech companies that don't want to deal with enterprise drivel.

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