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Re:Coursera valued at $2.5B after a finance round of additio... by edoceo on Saturday July 18, 2020 @07:33PM (#23885711)
I've never asked those I'm hiring, nobody ever brought it up. Ages ago I asked recruiters if they thought it mattered, they only care if the company does. No investor I've spoken to thinks the certs matter either. I'm like 0/60 with my population.

But, I do think the coursework is educational.

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Re:Coursera valued at $2.5B after a finance round of additio... by paulie_a on Saturday July 18, 2020 @08:39PM (#23886028)
It seems like it could be useful at the very end to show you a re committed to learning and staying upto date. Or diversing your skill set. In all honesty is probably value those certs ina candidate more than where they went to school a decade ago.
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Re:Coursera valued at $2.5B after a finance round of additio... by ergocoder on Saturday July 18, 2020 @07:47PM (#23885783)
It's not very different graduating from a non-famous university though.

I graduated from SEA. Nobody ever asked about it or mentioned it. I'm sure they wouldn't even know how to pronounce my college's name correctly.

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Re:Coursera valued at $2.5B after a finance round of additio... by dmurray on Saturday July 18, 2020 @07:58PM (#23885831)
Lots of jobs have a four-year degree or equivalent as a hard requirement. You might not even have been asked to interview if you didn't have that on your CV.
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Re:Coursera valued at $2.5B after a finance round of additio... by edoceo on Saturday July 18, 2020 @08:07PM (#23885880)
Right, when I care, the requirements is just some 4yr, accredited uni. But, mostly I don't care about that either. Experience is my key metric. And for entry level (which I do a lot of) it's about a code profile and showing you can hack stuff together.
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