Big Cities No Longer Deliver for Low-Skill Workers

Re:Big Cities No Longer Deliver for Low-Skill Workers by coldtea on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @11:15AM (#18969327)

>That being said, with AWS Certs going for between $75-$300 how long do colleges think they can survive?

Well, colleges used to be for the elites (either rich or very talented) to learn science and to do research.

It wasn't meant for vocational training for the general salaried worker. Now it's mostly that.

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Re:Big Cities No Longer Deliver for Low-Skill Workers by scarface74 on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @07:13PM (#18974317)

And if you just take the cert without the understanding of the underlying technology, or any practical skills you will be embarrassed when you interview. Certs by themselves are worth next to nothing.

I ask one simple architectural question that weeds out many of the paper tigers:

“We need to deploy a website that is fault tolerant, secure, can handle one AZ going down and scalable. How would you do it using AWS technologies?”

I’m saying this as someone who has 5 AWS certs and interviews AWS Devops candidate. But I also have 20+ years of professional software development experience, a degree, and before that I was a hobbyist for 6 years.

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Re:Big Cities No Longer Deliver for Low-Skill Workers by johnrogers0 on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @12:08PM (#18969887)

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