<story><title>GitHub Certifications (Beta)</title><url>https://github.com/certifications</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>breakingcups</author><text>Ugh, this has Microsoft&amp;#x27;s playbook written all over it. Introduce a certification, thus increasing the gap between developers who (had their employee) pay Microsoft and developers that didn&amp;#x27;t. Conflate a generic concept (Git in this case) with Microsoft&amp;#x27;s specific implementation (Github), muddying the difference in managers&amp;#x27; lexicons. Attempt to set Github as a standard to reach in everyone&amp;#x27;s mind.&lt;p&gt;I mean there&amp;#x27;s a certificaiton, so it has to be something we shouldn&amp;#x27;t miss out on, right?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DaiPlusPlus</author><text>&amp;gt; Introduce a certification, thus increasing the gap between developers who (had their employee) pay Microsoft and developers that didn&amp;#x27;t.&lt;p&gt;Did anyone ever take Microsoft&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;Microsoft Certified Application Developer&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Microsoft Certified Solutions Architect&amp;quot; titles seriously?&lt;p&gt;I was still in high-school when I heard about it. I asked some SWE friends of mine who told me that they didn&amp;#x27;t take it seriously due to the wide prevalence of _brain dumps_ all over the Internet. A few said having it on your resume may actually &lt;i&gt;hurt&lt;/i&gt; their careers or job-seeking because potential employers who were on-the-ball took a dim view of them because they were so easy to obtain, so and automatically assumed anyone who advertised the fact they had one when they already had a degree in CS and&amp;#x2F;or good industrial experience at the very least had misplaced priorities (so I guess if you have it as a single line-item on your resume in 9pt text buried at the bottom that&amp;#x27;s okay, just don&amp;#x27;t make it a heading).&lt;p&gt;What&amp;#x27;s amusing to me is that after working at Microsoft in Redmond for a few years at the start of my career as an FTE SE in DevDiv - I didn&amp;#x27;t know anyone who had such a certificate. If no-one needed one to work &lt;i&gt;at&lt;/i&gt; Microsoft on the very tools these certificates are for, what&amp;#x27;s the point?</text></comment>
<story><title>GitHub Certifications (Beta)</title><url>https://github.com/certifications</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>breakingcups</author><text>Ugh, this has Microsoft&amp;#x27;s playbook written all over it. Introduce a certification, thus increasing the gap between developers who (had their employee) pay Microsoft and developers that didn&amp;#x27;t. Conflate a generic concept (Git in this case) with Microsoft&amp;#x27;s specific implementation (Github), muddying the difference in managers&amp;#x27; lexicons. Attempt to set Github as a standard to reach in everyone&amp;#x27;s mind.&lt;p&gt;I mean there&amp;#x27;s a certificaiton, so it has to be something we shouldn&amp;#x27;t miss out on, right?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>m12k</author><text>Thank god most of the non-corporate software industry regards certifications as a way to pad a non-impressive resume and not something actually valuable.</text></comment>