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Originally Posted by Lagaidh
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I suppose.
The two best programmers I ever met had nothing more than high school educations. One even ended up working for Bethesda (gaming studio).
I'm not saying certs are worthless, I personally don't really know. I've been on dev teams for the Navy, Marines, Darpa, in the medical field, aircraft design, telephony and IVR, and business apps. In 13 years, I can count on my hands the number of programmers that had any cert, other than a CS degree, on any of those teams.
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Certs are worse than worthless (for development, I don't know about IT). I'd say as a dev manager, after having interviewed hundreds of candidates, the ones that put certs on their resume perform about as terrible as the people that put XML/HTML on their list of known programming languages.
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I've seen amazing devs with high school educations or that were college dropouts. I don't recommend that path but I have seen it.
Best thing to impress is have a 4 year degree in math, CS, or related, and show me some code you've written outside of work. I got hired for my first real job showing my employer my guild's DKP site that I'd written as well as a little tetris game I made on the mac.