[thelist] Certification...[OT]
Erik Mattheis
gozz at gozz.com
Fri Jun 29 10:44:14 CDT 2001
The only time not having certification has clearly hurt me was in
loosing a bid despite the fact that our bid was clearly the best
(someone slid the other bids to me). The situation was this: nobody
at the client knew jack about database applications except their
hired gun computer tech guy, who had his MSCE, a watery understanding
of "boolean" and knew that ColdFusion was "like a limited version of
ASP."
I dunno ... certification - I've answered the question and still got
the project ... I think most situations are going to be:
a. See certification as a big plus and be so full of Certified Idiots
that you'd run screaming.
b. Be impressed by an answer like "Technology changes so quickly I
don't have time to prove what I know, especially when the technology
I was going to be tested on will be outdated by the time
certification arrives."
c. Be able to evaluate you without looking for letters after your name.
PS - regarding the story from above, the time line was to have the
application built and deployed in March ... as of this Monday, they
haven't seen one stitch of anything.
--
- Erik Mattheis
Weaning self off M$.
Learning Linux.
Waiting for OS X apps.
Still wants to see flying saucer.
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