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Re:Google offers certificate to help IT career growth by jimbokun on Friday January 17, 2020 @12:24PM (#22076800)
"because the kinds of candidates I saw with certificates were generally inferior and couldn't code their way out of a paper bag"

Or in this case, because they are entry level and its their first programming job?

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Re:Google offers certificate to help IT career growth by LeifCarrotson on Friday January 17, 2020 @12:56PM (#22077212)
The third sentence of the article says "...75,000 entry-level jobs require Python proficiency." They're not expecting to hire Guido to those jobs, but someone who knows which side of the keyboard should be on top would be a good start.

Given two candidates, one who went to a training exercise and earned a certificate for it and one who has a Github page that includes a couple disgusting, hacky, buggy Python scripts (mostly consisting of snippets copied from StackOverflow) to automate some analysis that was awkward in Excel, I'd take the latter 99 times out of 100.

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Re:Google offers certificate to help IT career growth by baja_blast on Friday January 17, 2020 @02:17PM (#22078101)
> Github page that includes a couple disgusting, hacky, buggy Python scripts

I am more surprised when Python code I read isn't!

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Re:Google offers certificate to help IT career growth by gowld on Friday January 17, 2020 @12:47PM (#22077100)
The presumption is that they went for the cert after they tried and failed at accomplishing anything.
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Re:Google offers certificate to help IT career growth by scarface74 on Friday January 17, 2020 @04:52PM (#22079834)
Even if it’s their first programming job. I would expect them to know how to program. Programming is easy to learn on your own.
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