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Re: GitHub Certifications (Beta)

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Post by m12k »

swiley wrote: post #97
m12k wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank god most of the non-corporate software industry regards certifications as a way to pad a non-impressive resume and not something actually valuable.

Why is it certificates are viewed this way and degrees are not? Is it a class thing? Or are there really just no good certificates.

I think part of the reason is that when you choose to get a degree, you don't know any better, and it probably seems as good a way to get into the field as any (in lots of other fields, it's the only way in - e.g. bio-tech, so it's an easy assumption to make). By the time you get far enough in your career to get a certification, you're also far enough along to know that it's worthless, so it's more of a red flag to others if you choose to do so anyway.

Re: GitHub Certifications (Beta)

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Post by ziml77 »

greatgib wrote: post #6

This bullshit certification thing that is coming a global trend is going too far! 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...

Becoming? If anything it was much worse in the 90s and 00s. People don't take certifications nearly as seriously now.

Re: GitHub Certifications (Beta)

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Post by npteljes »

ezoe wrote: post #102
npteljes wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>How do I suppose to know that without getting any alert previosuly? By reading every GitHub documents and committing it to the brain? Isn't that how one normally prepares for an exam?

It is. Does that knowledge help to use git/GitHub in any way? If you can have a certificate without practically using git/GitHub while people who use git/GitHub every day failed to get one because they don't bother to flash card GitHub trivia, is that certificate worth something?

I don't think too much of their certificate, because it looks like typical marketing bullshit from a huge corporation. But I think you can use pointless stuff like this to your advantage: to demonstrate that you can be up the job, that you can handle situations like this professionally.

Re: GitHub Certifications (Beta)

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Post by eyelidlessness »

maple3142 wrote: post #26

Slightly off topic, but the url seems to be conflict with a user called "certifications". You can find that user using GitHub api or Mobile app, but you can't view his profile page on desktop.

Came to say this, and also that the app user link hijacks the page link on iOS. I had to click the ellipsis, then share, them open in safari to even access the page...

Re: GitHub Certifications (Beta)

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Post by dheera »

viraptor wrote: post #92
dheera wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly. If someone wants to demonstrate that they can use Github the best way is for their personal Github to be full of well-structured projects.

This gets repeated every time, but it's worth repeating: You've just discounted many skilled people working at companies which don't allow public personal projects, and people who are not interested in working on personal projects. There's a significant number of them.

I should rephrase -- having stuff in your Github is the best way to show you know your way around Github.

Not discounting the fact that you may have lots of other skills and nothing in your Github.

In general if someone has enough other skills and worked at companies that have a high bar, it's likely they can pick up Github fast enough even if they haven't used it that it shouldn't be a hiring concern.

Like for example, if someone is fluent in C++ or some such, I wouldn't doubt their ability to learn how to use git.

Re: GitHub Certifications (Beta)

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Post by tzs »

breakingcups wrote: post #9

Ugh, this has Microsoft'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't. Conflate a generic concept (Git in this case) with Microsoft's specific implementation (Github), muddying the difference in managers' lexicons. Attempt to set Github as a standard to reach in everyone's mind. I mean there's a c…

> Conflate a generic concept (Git in this case) with Microsoft's specific implementation (Github), muddying the difference in managers' lexicons. Attempt to set Github as a standard to reach in everyone's mind.

Both of those already happened years before Microsoft acquired GitHub.

Re: GitHub Certifications (Beta)

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Post by dartharva »

bob1029 wrote: post #80

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. 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's README.md, link it to the issue and adjust labels. That would tell me in 60 seconds everything I n…

> Who is seriously looking for these things?

The mass recruiters (or modern indenture owners) that import and place engineers by the bulk. They don't have the time to bother looking for actual practical skills.

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