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I don't think you have to worry about experience so much for the certification. I've interviewed folks who haven't had any professional programming experience that have taken a boot camp or a course and passed the MS certification exams.


Which is exactly why they have lost a lot of their importance. I would say at least half of the people that hold MS certs shouldn't really have them as they did nothing more than study books for months, go to boot camps, or "brain dump" sites/training. All of this is done to collect initials to put after their name in an effort to make themselves look better and/or demand a higher pay than what is deserved.

If I interview someone that says they have MS credentials I tend to grill them harder on those areas. The more certs someone has, the less likely they are to have any real world experience.

And yes, that is a generalization. I know several people that have multiple certs that do honestly deserve them and do actively work in those areas, and really know there stuff; but that is becoming an ever increasing minority. And yes, I do have an MS cert, which took me 14 years of real experience to finally decide to go after it, passing all 3 exams on the first try without studying. The cert should be about what you know from everyday experience and use, not how much you can cram in order to pass.


Scott.

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