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<p>Hiya,</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/7/23 12:22, Paul Gear via
linux-aus wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:4b5d1da7-2f24-790d-e7bd-d533eb7b8043@gear.email">On
3/7/23 18:41, Adam Nielsen via linux-aus wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">As it happens a colleague of mine
recently put the view (paraphrased
<br>
slightly) "If I see lots of certifications it's a bit of a
warning flag
<br>
- why not put that time into contributing to a FOSS project
they care
<br>
about?" a fair point I thought.
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This matches my own experience too. I presume a lot of
certifications
<br>
focus on memorising things rather than applying knowledge,
because
<br>
people with a lot of certs often seem to struggle to come up
with a
<br>
solution for a problem. If you tell them the solution they can
usually
<br>
implement it no problem, but you often have to hold their hand a
bit
<br>
while you're trying to work out what the solution might look
like.
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Speaking as someone who is FLOSS at heart but has a long list of
vendor certs, this makes me sad.
<br>
<br>
I get vendor certs because my current and previous employer both
highly value them, and they make them free for staff to take. Most
of the ones I've taken (largely AWS & Azure) are little more
than logic tests and as long as you have a general idea about the
product's capabilities and are a competent reader and logical
thinker, they aren't difficult. So the amount of time I need to
dedicate to gaining a certification in something I do every day is
tiny compared to the amount of effort I would need to expend to
make significant FLOSS contributions. Not to mention that many of
these vendors now have significant footprints in the FLOSS
ecosystem, especially in the Kubernetes space.
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<p>That's a fair point Paul and in re-reading my original email I
realise I missed a bit of nuance.<br>
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<p>I should have made greater emphasis on the "...a <i>bit</i><i>
of a</i> warning flag..." - lots of certifications definitely
wouldn't rule someone out if they also showed up well in other
aspects of their resume (work experience, community contributions
and whatnot)</p>
<p>Having visible FLOSS contributions also helps paint the picture,
but again it's not a blocker either :)</p>
<p>Cheers,<br>
Hugh</p>
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