Because people are nothing more than cogs in Google’s wheel. Who needs a well rounded education when you can learn just enough to join the long line of drones.
You could use the certificates to get in the door and use tuition assistance from the company to round yourself out. Google pays 2/3 for job-related coursework, 1/3 for personal improvement classes.
Looking at the certificates homepage [1], this seems like a great entry point into the tech industry for people that might otherwise be excluded - practical skills to perform a job, not a replacement for the theory and rigour of an expensive 4 year Computer Science or Computer Engineering education (but how many entry level tech jobs REALLY require that background anyway?).
My name-brand-school Master's degree makes me want to resist this sort of thing to justify my own ego. But I've worked with great people who were self-taught, so if this credential helps motivated self-starters get thier foot in the door and launch a fulfilling career, I'm all for it!
I was hired pretty quickly and easily with no degree. A degree from a prestigious four year college certainly doesn't hurt, but it's definitely not a requirement.
I have worked at both Google and Facebook without any degree or certification. In my experience, these companies care a lot more about interview performance than formal credentials.
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[ 2.0 ms ] story [ 29.1 ms ] threadMy name-brand-school Master's degree makes me want to resist this sort of thing to justify my own ego. But I've worked with great people who were self-taught, so if this credential helps motivated self-starters get thier foot in the door and launch a fulfilling career, I'm all for it!
[1] https://grow.google/certificates/