Do tech certifications actually make you a better engineer? I just got passed over for a cloud engineer role in favor of someone who has five AWS certifications but has never actually managed a production environment. I’ve been running infrastructure out of necessity at my current startup for three years, but because I don’t have a specific piece of digital paper, the enterprise hiring manager assumed I didn't know the fundamentals.

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Certs just validate your knowledge. They are not meant to make you better engineer. But you should be capable of passing any cert exams based on your experience. So get your certs as many roles make it a requirement

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They don't. But from the look things, it's obvious you should get your certs.

It depends where you work. Often this is a result of hiring managers or HR not having any idea of anything technical so the certs just make it easy for them to see "oh there's a cert". I've really not found them valuable in actually getting a job anywhere except places with overweight HR teams and underskilled management.

25 years ago I was told that hiring is based on Certs. It seems that hasn’t changed.

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