[yalogin]

How valid are these certificates in the real world? Does anyone get benefitted by having them? I have always used these sites as a quick one off concept check. That was before llms, and I don’t have a use for these sites for my use case. So I don’t have any understanding of how valid they are in general

[jghn]

> How valid are these certificates in the real world?

Outside of some very rare outlier cases, 0%.

The value is the potential knowledge you gained helping you to jumpstart other things. Employers don't value them at all.

[trollbridge]

I have not noticed good results from candidates who have these certs.

[schnitzelstoat]

The Computational Neuroscience one helped me get a PhD place many years ago.

But one of the professors on the admissions board was a friend of the professor who ran the Coursera course so they had a lot more trust in it.