Which Certificate will jobs respect more?

Posted by AerieAvailable@reddit | learnprogramming | View on Reddit | 11 comments

I’m from Chicago, Illinois and have two program options I’m weighing.
The first is a Power BI Data Analyst (PL-300) bootcamp partnered with Northwestern University. Upon completion, the credential would be tied to Northwestern as the institution.

The second is a bootcamp offering courses in Agile Scrum Master with JIRA, Data Analysis with Excel, Oracle Database SQL, Power BI Certification, Tableau Desktop Certification, Python Programming, and Agentic AI & Prompt Engineering. Each course would be certified through an online exam. I’m leaning toward this option because it offers more certifications rather than just one, even though the first option carries the backing of an accredited institution.

Which would you choose?

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deividas-strole@reddit

Experiance is worth more then certification. But to answer your question - go with the second one!

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IvyDamon@reddit

I’d pick the one where you actually build projects, not just stack badges. A Northwestern name looks good for five seconds, but showing a real dashboard or Python workflow gets remembered longer.

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Rain-And-Coffee@reddit

Absolutely nobody cares about certs, however they can still be useful to learn the materials.

Choose the one that interests you the most.

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Firehaven44@reddit

Yeah wouldn't do either. Go to a real college and get a degree, then go find a job like help desk to start building experience

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GreatMinds1234@reddit

You're right, I would also choose the second one. Now if you could just send the link to it, something so we can have where it is and how to sign up, there would be a lot of happy people here 😁😉

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azz_kikkr@reddit

Look into FinOps for Cloud, not a bad fit for what you described. But no certification, join as junior first

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binarycow@reddit

None.

Certifications aren't really important for software dev.

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was more up to date with the ecosystem he would work with than his competitors (in our case: python)
was more familiar with tools like git (e.g. he just naturally used the commandline for it instead of depending on a gui)
was able to write a simple CRUD tool without the help of AI
asked good clarification questions about specifics

Those are the kind of aspects that get you hired after you made it into the group of people who match the requirements for the job.