So I looked it up and Google is offering certifications in various fields through Coursera, and they claim it’ll help one get a good paying IT job.

People have made videos on Youtube talking about them with varying answers and in the comments, people often discuss using them as a springboard to get CompTIA certs.

But are these certifications actually worth the money financially? Do people actually get hired if that’s all an employee has? Don’t employers want people with degrees too?

  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    If you applied at my company as junior IT, but you had some certs and “experience” doing IT (even if you lied), you’d get in.

    If you had no certs, way harder.

    But honestly, the CompTIA and AWS intro level certs aren’t that difficult. You literally can watch YouTube videos for a month to master it. The annoying part is paying $200-400 to take it.

    If you are using Linux for a year as your personal computer, you know more than you think.