[nsheridan]

> I always thought it was funny that I did the same job before and after the certs.

It’s often more advantageous for the company to have people with certs (it was with MCSE and such in the 90s anyway) - more MCSE etc on staff meant it was possible for the company to attain higher partnership levels with Microsoft which often meant more lucrative contracts and so on.

So while you may have been doing the same job as before, just by having the getting the certs you added more value to the business.

[prepend]

This didn’t apply to my company as we were just a product company and didn’t have any relationships with Microsoft (or Novell or Sun) other than buying their licenses.

I later worked for consulting companies where these certs came in handy for the reason you describe.