Re: ruby certification

On 12/8/07, John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Oh, come on.
Some are against certifications as usual, but at that point what good
is a diploma or degree?!
Any reasonable employer or project leader will simply view a
certification or diploma or degree as ONE OF MANY factors in deciding
a candidates value.

Certs have a bad rep in the US but the Japanese certification Matz
mentions is probably totally good. There's nothing wrong with certs,
they're just aimed at a different kind of programmers. The question
you want to hear in a job interview is "how awesome are you?" The
question certs ask is "are you at least competent?" The hostility to
certs is reasonable in that nobody likes to be asked the second
question, but it's unreasonable in that there are plenty of jobs where
that's the sane question to ask. The proliferation of certs is
actually very valuable, with Ruby being mainstreamed in the US via
Rails, because it gives you a way to objectively distinguish "how much
do you rock?" jobs from "are you at least awake?" jobs. The two types
of jobs require totally different types of programmers to fill them,
and a programmer from one type wouldn't be happy in a job from the
other type. It's valuable to be able to spot that distinction from a
good long way off.

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