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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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