I'm Security+ certified, but that's because it's a DoD requirement for being a sysadmin on classified systems. I no longer work on those, and I figure I'll just let the cert drop without renewal. Nobody else seems to give a shit about it.

I have to say, their testing methods have appropriately evolved over the years. I let my renewal lapse once and had to retake it. The first time I took it about twelve years ago it was just 100 questions, multiple choice. Last time there were labs and shit like log analysis. I barely passed, but I also didn't bother studying.

Personally? By and large I think most certifications are worthless. Especially the entry level ones. Sure Amazon, it's very necessary to know the pricing structure of AWS. How do you actually use it? You don't know but damn if you can tell them the price tiers. Like that sort of stuff is fucking useless.

Professionally though, yeah they'll help you get jobs. It used to be people would just look for experience and certs were just icing on the cake. Now though it seems that it's the complete opposite.

"No one every got fired for buying IBM" was a saying that some of us older folks remember. Once IBM was both ubiquitous and synonymous with serious, reliable computing. The point of the saying was that managers and persons in decision-making positions didn't know jack about things down at the hands-on level and went with what they thought others would perceive as wisdom.

All of this has happened before. So say we all.

Technology moves fast. Managers and persons in positions of authority don't know jack about what happens at the hands-on level. "Certifications" are ubiquitous and synonymous with competence and knowledge (ignore the boot camps and pass-the test books). "Don't blame me for hiring the guy. He was Certified."

Certs are a scam. A cash cow business model. I have a "lifetime" Security+ cert but it's no longer honored by DoD. I suppose they didn't expect me to live this long.

Certs are a scam. But unfortunately that's the first step to get in the HR door. Easier for manager to say I require a Server+ candidate than enumerate the actual skills required. That would potentially reveal they they themselves didn't know.

My anectodal evidence, with the world as it is, certs really dont matter. A good example, I run my resume through an automated AI system that links the job posting to my resume, and terraforms my resume to the job description. Is it ethical or in any way honest? Nope! Does it get me a job? Sure it does. And as sad as it is, morals and ethics belong to Whites and Christians, all the mongrels are mere cattle and pawns in the game of the jew, and are to be treated as such. Whites need to do more to actually play the jew to their own game, to fix the problem from within, and no amount of being plastered by bullshit legalese is gonna "fix" this problem