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Certifications are a filter, not a qualification

Why certified candidates keep failing technical interviews, and what interviewers are really probing when they ask you to walk through an alert.

Shubham Sinha8 July 20267 min read

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What this article covers

1What a certification genuinely signals
2The question that separates candidates
3Reasoning aloud as an assessed skill
4Building evidence instead of collecting credentials

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