Programming - Advice?

[paulgiamatti]

It depends on so many different things. You're not going to get a job at Google with only certifications, but at the same time if you know what you're doing and can demonstrate that in an interview or a skills test, you might not need anything else (or anything at all) to get a halfway decent job at a startup. I would know - I landed my first job at a software startup with nothing except retail and tech support under my belt.