And yet you see plenty of people that don't give any weight to certifications, and clearly just about no one sees a degree as any sort of indicator, beyond a simple line item that must exist for HR to pass the resume along.
That's 4+ years of study right there, that we did to prove that we could do the job, but no, fuck that, some of those people freeze up during an interview and a handful of those people we brought couldn't demonstrate their programming skill, so we decided we can't trust that for ANYONE.
Sorry, go invent some new way to certify yourself. How about 2-4 years of intense study and a new test, like a bar exam that lawyers take! Or just get your PhD! Just study for half your life, go waaaaay into debt, and take the exact same salaries we are offering now, because we don't reeeaaaaally want to pay you as much as we're paying now, so we're sure as hell not going to offer to pay more for that extra effort.
If you thought a day long test was too annoying, then your only alternative is spend even more time and get something we're just going to ignore again the instant we make a bad hire with someone with that license!
(For the record, if I could take a single certification test and skip all this interview bullshit for the rest of my career, I would have done that years ago. I hate going through the technical interview gauntlet, and I'm one of the good programmers, at least once I'm on the job).
That's 4+ years of study right there, that we did to prove that we could do the job, but no, fuck that, some of those people freeze up during an interview and a handful of those people we brought couldn't demonstrate their programming skill, so we decided we can't trust that for ANYONE.
Sorry, go invent some new way to certify yourself. How about 2-4 years of intense study and a new test, like a bar exam that lawyers take! Or just get your PhD! Just study for half your life, go waaaaay into debt, and take the exact same salaries we are offering now, because we don't reeeaaaaally want to pay you as much as we're paying now, so we're sure as hell not going to offer to pay more for that extra effort.
If you thought a day long test was too annoying, then your only alternative is spend even more time and get something we're just going to ignore again the instant we make a bad hire with someone with that license!
(For the record, if I could take a single certification test and skip all this interview bullshit for the rest of my career, I would have done that years ago. I hate going through the technical interview gauntlet, and I'm one of the good programmers, at least once I'm on the job).