&gt;The certificate shouldn&#x27;t matter in the interview itself<p>Have you had many IT interviews?  I have, they are vastly non-technical interviews.<p>Unless you count &quot;have you ever used #CommonSoftware? how about #SlightlylessCommonSoftware?&quot; as a technical interview.<p>I&#x27;m an IT administrator, not a programmer, so i&#x27;m speaking to my experience in that field, I am not trying to make any claims about how programming interviews work.<p>I&#x27;ve never had a whiteboard in an interview, I have in two interviews ever been asked to walk through a diagnostic process for problems, or asked any infrastructure or network design&#x2F;architecture questions.<p>Its worth noting I work and live in Detroit Michigan, so I&#x27;m not exactly interviewing with major technology companies regularly.  But I have worked for MSPs which glossed over technical interviews in favor of culture fit as well.  (MSPs are especially incentivised to have employees with certs, they get discounts and kickbacks)