[matheusmoreira]

HN users seem to have a very dim view of certifications in general.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24855453

It's interesting how people pay for a degree, pay for certifications only to find themselves looked down on as people who don't have better things to pad their CV with. Looks like the best entries are previous jobs.

[solardev]

I mean, sometimes I wish our industry had more rigorous practices and standards. Web dev in particular gets more wild west by the day. But I've never heard a colleague even discuss a cert, much less actually have one (to my knowledge).

I think they're a good idea, just extremely rare in my experience. I've met more self taught devs and tech people, many of whom make bank, than anyone with a cert. I've seen them online, of course, but always thought they were a foreign thing for outsourced support and networking stuff. Maybe a double standard there where US nationals get different treatment? I dunno...