[BinaryIdiot]

In my experience the only time this matters is when you're doing contracting work and a government entity or company requires X certificate(s) to win a contract. It's amazing how many government contracts require certain, easy to get certificates and you can't work on the contract without them.

Beyond that I have never seen them be useful unless your company has, say, pay raises tied to extended learning (which is a common thing with teaching but that's going to college, not some Google cert).