[Ms-J]

It's not worth it to get certs in general. As long as you can do the work, education is far down on the list when it comes to hiring. Even recruiters will tell you that these days, "Do you want someone who can do the work, or do you want someone who can memorize a few answers for a test?"

[solumunus]

It should be that way but in many, many companies it’s not. I would argue it’s extremely common for companies to (a) not hire unless you have specific language knowledge, even though you’re clearly the overall better candidate (b) require leet code tests (c) only hire people with degrees.

[moondev]

What about the insane possibility that someone who can memorize a few answers for a test can ALSO do the work?

[acheron]

This varies highly by where you want to work. Government and adjacent places love certs.

[Ms-J]

The vast majority of gov jobs are very low skill and effort so of course they like degrees. It's a checkbox they can fall back on to say the person is "qualified."

[mikecoles]

You're spot-on. IT in government is being a liaison to the vendor that does the actual work.