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by apothegm 14 days ago
They’re useful if you want a job with a big company that doesn’t have tech in its DNA.

Tech companies and startups associate certs with big traditional companies that aren’t really tech savvy — they’ll either ignore certs or see them as a negative signal. The idea being that certs show you’ve memorized something but not that you know how to think.

Small non-tech companies typically don’t know enough to look for such a thing.