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5-10 years of Salesforce experience and 0-5 certs = red flag
6 months of Salesforce experience and 15 certs = red flag
Beyond that, luckily within the first 5 minutes of an interview you can quickly identify those that are using dumps or haven't done any learning beyond their project work
A certificate is not required to grow your skill. I'd rather take that few hours improving upon my skill or read release notes than reading about certification. I run a Salesforce department within my company and lead as a Technical Architect, with best practices confirmed by Salesforce by their PM. I have 0 cert.
Only meaningful with applicable and relevant experience.
This!
I have 30+ SF certifications. I use it as a way to structure my learning.
Not shamed of having that many; not bragging having that many either. I have 7+ years experience and always feel the need to learn more; especially SF keeps expanding. Studying and practicing hard for the toughest one - CTA at the moment.
When I focused on the Microsoft stacks before, I also had tons of MS certifications.
Cert, no cert. A few, a lot. It is totally a personal choice. I don’t judge people by certifications.
I'm in the end user world instead of consulting, and no one cares. It's pretty obvious if you know your stuff.
I think SF certs are useful and meaningful. However, I know an architect that has used exam dumps and he was about useless.
If you're a technical architect, having lots of the technical certs is useful.
If you're a functional architect or a project manager (less so if you're a PM), having admin + your specialty is useful, but you don't really need any beyond that.
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Agreed. My recent thinking is that if if I'm hiring for functional/project leadership, I'm going to really dig into that subject because holy smokes there are a lot of people with 5+ certs that don't have the slightest idea of how an Agile/Scrum project is supposed to work, or how to gather and analyze requirements, or write user stories and test scripts.