RE: Rant

re:

> Results spoiling the image on OCP.

what "image", the marketing people's garbage? the clueless HR departments?

big software companies make a lot of money from training and certification, so they have an incentive to selectively present information in such a way as to convince the inexperienced that they "MUST HAVE CERTIFICATION". why should people swallow that kind of terdliness without excersising some prudence and independent judgement?

do a web search on the history of computer industry certification to see that there is a lot of controversy about the practical "value" of the certification the diferent vendors offer, and how it has changed over time (start with Novell around 1990?).

On 22 Jul 2002 at 8:13, Nirmal Kumar Muthu Kumaran wrote:

> Gurus,
>
> "ocp will let you enter into an interview" - proved.
>
> However the candidates failed to prove it.
>
> Results spoiling the image on OCP.
>
> Nirmal.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 6:24 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> mkb,
>
> Your surprised? Over the last 6 years I've interviewed many a candidate
> while we added two DBA's to the group. I've gotten a lot of answers like
> this:
>
> Question: How do you create a table?
> Answer: The developer sends me a script. I run script.

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