[austin-cheney]

I know developers like to put their head in sand and pretend to the contrary, but credentials do matter. Things like security or cloud certifications and security clearances are extremely valuable when looking for employment.

What has helped me the least is code quality and GitHub projects/portfolio. This has only helped me in the added technical experience and the ability to talk through a variety of scenarios during an interview.

[bibabaloo]

> I know developers like to put their head in sand and pretend to the contrary, but credentials do matter. Things like security or cloud certifications and security clearances

Interesting, I've interviewed with and for a number of tech companies and it's never come up. What companies are you seeing who are interested in certs?

[austin-cheney]

In the past as a JavaScript developer they are happy if you are smart enough to spell your own name or color within the lines without eating the crayons.

This year though things have been far more competitive. I wasn’t getting interviews at all until I focused on a combination of my development experience, my TS, and my certs. Since then I have had many interviews and several competing offers. In one case I given an offer to write test automation in Java with 0 years experience writing Java at this big rocket company, I do have experience writing test automation utilities though. I have since taken a work from job on API architecture for this massive data enterprise.

[john-tells-all]

I suggest your TS is moderately valuable, and certs are only a slight mention at best.

I've met multiple interviewers who said if you know the material, you wouldn't bother with a certificate... For them a cert is an anti-signal for competence in getting a job!

That said, I'm now working on completing Terraform cert. I know the material well, but missed a question in an interview. Investing time/energy in fleshing out my knowledge for the cert will be helpful, even if I don't mention _having_ the cert at all.