Am I better off getting my AWS certification before transitioning to another firm, rather than after? I'm on an awful staff augmentation BI project. I have hard data scientist/programming skills.(cont

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If you have hard skills, start applying now. Work on the certification simultaneously to the extent you are able then you can mention working towards it in interviews.

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I don’t know why you wouldn’t start both now. No reason to waste time

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What do you use to improve your system design knowledge? Thank you.

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I've spoken to my career coach about this dozens of times with 0 success. It's been a really disheartening experience. Not sure if I should just tough it out and get the cert here or start applying to jobs now.

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