Has anyone gotten jobs simply from getting certifications? But no years of experience in the Cloud?

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Yes, I attribute my analyst level job offer (in Cloud Service Mgmt) to the fact that I had two Cloud certs (one of them was IBM though 😂) and some low level Project Management cert

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