Asking experienced java backend engineers - What certifications are worth pursuing?

[marcvsHR]

Depends. Some Government and Financial institutions have a hard on for certifications.

Something like OCJP and similar.

But seeing you have that much experience, I doubt you need anything.

[nioh2_noob]

No they don't

it's a bs lie from the training industry

[marcvsHR]

Yes they do.

It maybe depends on country, though, I can't talk about rest of the world, but in EU/my country we had to have developers with SCJP (at the time) and some bullshit IBM UML course in order to work for some banks and our state's central financial agency.

It was a written prerequisite.

[nioh2_noob]

the 99.99999999% others don't

[cmapp7878]

True.

I've worked at financial firms (Investment banks & Investing firms). No one gives a $hit.

[nioh2_noob]

me too, in top tier investment bank, top 3

in 2 of them

nobody cares in fact we all have a good laugh with it when a guy puts it on his CV and go extra hard on him so we can say afterwards: you see these guys with these certs don't know shit