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Re:I Was Interviewed by an AI Bot for a Job by tayo42 on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @06:26PM (#47343105)
Certification process like what Cisco has.

All companies attempt to give the same interviews, just have one centralized organization give two programing questions and two system design questions and some kind of proof once you pass it.

You filter every one that can't pass the interview in the first place, you get a better interview experience, and just focus on experience

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Re:I Was Interviewed by an AI Bot for a Job by singleshot_ on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @06:34PM (#47343220)
This sounds an awful lot like a college diploma.
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Re:I Was Interviewed by an AI Bot for a Job by bigfishrunning on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @07:30PM (#47343978)
Lots of people get through engineering school but are terrible engineers. Interviews are important (and difficult... Not many people are good interviewers!)
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Re:I Was Interviewed by an AI Bot for a Job by tayo42 on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @07:00PM (#47343591)
Colleges aren't all equal.

Professional certifications are different

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Re:I Was Interviewed by an AI Bot for a Job by hunterpayne on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @07:26PM (#47343924)
Professional certifications have a terrible reputation for good reason. You are perhaps too young to know why this is a silly idea. But its been tried and it failed spectacularly.
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Re:I Was Interviewed by an AI Bot for a Job by acheron on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @07:42PM (#47344136)
It works in essentially every other profession. Programming isn’t that special.
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Re:I Was Interviewed by an AI Bot for a Job by jjmarr on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @09:51PM (#47345275)
In essentially every other profession the credential is gated behind years of work experience and often a degree or course.

We already have such a credential. It's called "lasting two years at a FAANG+ without getting fired". If you do that you can get interviews anywhere.

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Re:I Was Interviewed by an AI Bot for a Job by operatingthetan on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @10:55PM (#47345822)
It appears that the coding job will be some variation will be some variation of vibecoding going forward, so a professional cert might be good enough.
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Re:I Was Interviewed by an AI Bot for a Job by tayo42 on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @10:18PM (#47345526)
I have an example of a certification that is useful in my first comment...
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