To be honest, I’ve been an engineer for roughly 15 years, and I don’t have any language or framework certs beyond my EECS degree. My languages and frameworks come and go depending what I am working on at the moment, but it’s generally not that hard to refresh my knowledge if I need to pull some stuff back up for use again.
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thefloweracidic@lemmy.world 9 months agoOddly enough I had more recruiters talk to me about Kotlin recently than Java, are there any certs you would recommend, if they even exist?
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
snowe@programming.dev 9 months ago
are there any certs you would recommend, if they even exist?
honestly… if I see certs on a resume I immediately get suspicious. In general certs are worth absolutely nothing and if there are too many of them they will actually make me less likely to recommend someone for a position. Experience is way more valuable than certifications and open source work is even more valuable than that.
thelastknowngod@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Certs are a waste of time tbh. If you have 8 years of experience, you should have more than enough to fill out a resume already.
An AWS cert is almost certainly even more useless for you specifically unless you wanted to get into devops/sre and do systems design. I have been in sre for a very long time and have never even heard of anyone writing tooling in Java. That section of the industry is entirely dominated by go, python, and (more often than anything else) bash for really quick automation.