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No, it’s all shit. Almost all certs, especially no name certs like that, are useless in this job market except the very complex certs. And the jobs that require those, will always want several years of experience to go along with it The best option in this job market is a degree and work smart/hard for internships More on reddit.com

I've been reading and calling eight hours per day for two weeks straight in an effort to choose the correct camp. I sincerely looked at MiT xPro, and have ruled it out of my choices. Previous attendees of MiT xPro have detailed their experiences in the program on Reddit and report to be unhappy with their experience. It appears many universities "sell" their name to boot camp providers and operate as an extension program. The accounts and reviews have not been great, even when operating as an extension of the most respected colleges. I'm not going to join any program involving a university, because the handful of companies that actually run these programs do not provide the education and service attendees expected. After all my searching, I feel there is a lot of shadiness in the boot camp world. This isn't to say there aren't fantastic camps that alumni are more than happy with. CIRR.ORG is really great resource, although reporting seems to have stopped since 2020. Reading their data will indirectly tip you off to some of the dishonesty in the industry. One example of dishonesty by schools is the practice of hiring last cohort grads to teach the next cohort in order to inflate the post-graduation job placement numbers. This is my first Reddit post after lurking for years. I hope to contribute meaningfully to the coding community at large. More on reddit.com

if the return in investment of not just money Self-pay? Hell no. Companies' dimes / getting this comped under a "continuing education" budget? That's a maybe. I mean for one thing, there are cheaper courses, and even fantastic free resources everywhere (search awesome- on github for example). And I think after a certain point, you're really not going to learn a whole lot from a course. You're not a noob, so you're probably going to get a lot less out of most of these structured learning paths anyway. Why not just setup and teardown some cloud labs and shuffle some data around them? Anyway, there's the community-based https://dataengineering.wiki/Index which has a coupla Airflow tables with a bunch more courses linked. I'm not a DE so I can't speak to any of them but even within my niche of devopsy-ish things there's only maybe a handful of courses that are any good. The rest? Probably not even worth the time investment if they were free. You read Designing Data Intensive Applications yet? Seems to be one of the longer-term reading materials for data eng. More on reddit.com