1- Brazilian currency (Real) is cooked; 2- More space to learn and build cool stuffs;
I'll graduate in CS in two years and I want to spend this time working to be competitive for international remote jobs. Any tips or things to consider?
They often highly reflect what you will actually do on the job (assuming you are going to be a Cloud or DevOps Engineer), show discipline, and prove a high level of knowledge and the ability to gain that knowledge.
Other certs that I think are valuable include the CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator), Terraform Associate, and even the newer GitHub Certs. I'm sure others have valuable certs to add. It is always changing.
Does that imply I can be competitive in the job market even without a formal CS education? Or are degrees still required?
I'm also brazilian and growing increasingly pessimistic and disillusioned about this country and its future.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24855453
It's interesting how people pay for a degree, pay for certifications only to find themselves looked down on as people who don't have better things to pad their CV with. Looks like the best entries are previous jobs.
I think they're a good idea, just extremely rare in my experience. I've met more self taught devs and tech people, many of whom make bank, than anyone with a cert. I've seen them online, of course, but always thought they were a foreign thing for outsourced support and networking stuff. Maybe a double standard there where US nationals get different treatment? I dunno...