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India and Pakistan are always competing on everything. Next India will have a 5 yr old pass CCIE.
Look even 7 year old's can get a CCNA. https://propakistani.pk/2022/03/16/7-year-old-pakistani-breaks-indias-record-to-become-worlds-youngest-ccna-professional/
I did mine in 2010 and not I can say it is quite irrelevant. Sure it taught me discipline and how to research and complete tasks but the technology itself has been superseded. I put a lot of work into it and it hurts that I wasted many years on t. Now I find myself researching automation and software programming. At least it has given me confidence in jumping sideways. I know it has taught me the building blocks of networking which people take for granted nowadays (until something breaks and then they come running to me).
I guess those guys are too deep into the drama about CCIE. It is a cash cow business, period. Was a win-win situation, but different these days.
Chuck is a CCIE too, loooooool. Goes to show how easy it is to pass this lab test.
I think it was said earlier, back in the day it was worth something. Not now. Just not relevant in the world of outsourced body shops. As the global off shore companies built in effect Cisco sweat shops and have ton of low paid Cisco certified engineers, it’s just cheaper to throw body’s at a Cisco project, sacrificing quality for cost.
i has 3 ccie cert now work walmart put thing shelve
ccie no good, not finds job. waste time if study ccie cert, no job.
The current CCIE actual lab exam is freely available on the internet - with correct answers. Take 3 weeks to memorize that and you become a freshly minted CCIE.
Cheating is rampant across all Cisco certs. It has devalued all Cisco certs, regardless of technology and/or level.
So, no - a CCIE is not what it used to be, IMO. And we only have ourselves to blame.
@1cuq+1fCWrx2f There’s a difference between getting your CCIE and recerting it decades later. All SEs should get one. Agreed that the SE org doesn’t give a sh-t about it, which says everything there is to say about them. They want mini-AMs.
Cisco SA here. I am a CCIE (a four digit one from the late '90's). It is completely, utterly useless nowadays and an anachronism. I kept it renewed ten times and on my 11th recertification gig but I am not bothering this time. I'm older and getting close to early retirement. I'd rather do an AWS cloud recertification and I am learning Python and web development skills and this could be something I could work two days a week on after giving up this Cisco gig. A reboot of the CCIE gives me nothing, least of all at Cisco. Cisco Certifications are meaningless inside Cisco now. Sad really but I'm confronting reality.
"worthless. all folks who passed in the past 10yrs did so thru braindumps, cisco knows, employers know it, candidates know it. nowadays you do your lab exam remotely from the comfort of your home. it is just an extra cash revenue for cisco."
Remote lab? Am I missing something? Fake news
Useless. Don't bother.
Used to be. But now CCIE can't keep up with all the transitions and acquisitions. The new WAN that Cisco is selling for example is now Viptela and Meraki. It is pretty much worthless now, and getting more by the year. Like Novell - once the pride of certification and network sales - now a relic of the past.
Helps a liitle if you also know cloud/devops. During a AWS loop I went through recently, I was surprised how many didn't know what a ccie even was.
worthless. all folks who passed in the past 10yrs did so thru braindumps, cisco knows, employers know it, candidates know it. nowadays you do your lab exam remotely from the comfort of your home. it is just an extra cash revenue for cisco.
Absolutely nothing unless you are working for a Cisco partner where it is a requirement to keep certain number of current CCIEs.