Certifications - Thoughts?

[Digital Wokan]

I think you hit one nail on the head.  I prefer a Brainbench cert to an
MS cert.  MS certs are relatively easy to get because MS wants drones
out there continuing the empire.  Not easy to find an MCSE who would
suggest anything other than Windows.  (They exist, but they're far rarer
than the drone army.)  Cisco is respectable since they are already
considered top of the line hardware and want their certs to reflect top
of the line administrators and installers.  Contrast that to MS's
software which is top of the dung-heap... oh, look at the shiny blinky
flashy things on my Windows system...  Sorry, what was I saying?

"Robert A. Klahn" wrote:
> 
> I was contacted by Brainbench themselves about a job after taking one of their UNIX tests. I did not take the job, I was happy with the one I had. I lived close to them (Northern Virgina) at the time.
> 
> I took the test because A) it was free, and B) someone whom I had interviewed put it on their resume. I wanted to see if it counted for anything.
> 
> Overall, I have more confidence in their tests, because at least they are independent of the vendors.
> 
> Bob.
> 
> On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 09:56:49 -0700
> "David A. Sinck" <plug-discuss@grueslayer.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > \_ SMTP quoth Carl Parrish on 2/26/2002 09:45 as having spake thusly:
> > \_
> > \_ Well they're cheap. What I would like to know if is anyone has ever
> > \_ gotten a job because of a brainbench cert?
> >
> > Perhaps only the graphic designer who made the prototype?  :-)
> >
> > David
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