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Re:Amazon Introduces Re:Post, a “Stack Overflow” for AWS by btown on Saturday December 25, 2021 @06:43PM (#29688147)
> to figure out if a candidate is any good

In a lot of organizations, the people responsible for identifying if a candidate is "good" and the people who are responsible for calibrating their offer, and where they enter a ladder in terms of seniority, are entirely different groups. Certifications are justifiable insofar as they're aimed entirely at the latter.

Re:Amazon Introduces Re:Post, a “Stack Overflow” for AWS by iamleppert on Saturday December 25, 2021 @07:03PM (#29688303)
And those are precisely the organizations I avoid like the plague. I’ve gotten to offer stage before and sensed this type of disconnect and promptly declined to continue in the process. It’s a huge red flag if the finances of a technical organization are controlled by people who don’t understand technology and consequently that unable to ascertain and appropriately appraise value.
Re:Amazon Introduces Re:Post, a “Stack Overflow” for AWS by pjmlp on Sunday December 26, 2021 @12:54PM (#29694594)
Many of those organisations are strong contributors to the FOSS that everyone around here enjoys playing with.