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No offense, but those certifications are pretty low value. The A+, etc solely exist because the federal government requires them for contractors.

Code bootcamps do provide some usefulness, and you could problably look at that syllabus and come up with a more portable ciriculum that you could teach to people with aptitude but without credentials.

It would be great to use something like this in civil service and other areas to give disadvantaged folks a way to get into the industry without a four year degree in CS.

It's bizarre though. Companies won't even look at CS graduates from state schools, but will hire someone who went through a glorified training class.



None taken, the IC3 in particular exists so that people can say they're "certified". The qualifications are things like "Make some text bold in MS Word". Ridiculous.


Which companies are disregarding state school graduates?

Don't Amazon, Facebook, et. al. send recruiting teams to most state schools?


I got an offer from Facebook and I went to Virginia Tech, a state school.

I think it depends on the quality/prestige of the CS program.


Virginia Tech and Georgia Tech are probably the highest-regarded state schools for Computer Science.

(I am excluding the University of California system because its high cost and stringent admissions make it more similar to private institutions)




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