I am IN the IT world. I am more in the wire aspect but I have to deal with “Cisco certified technicians” that the companies I contract with when turning a circuit up or if something is not working correctly..
With the exception of one clec (phone company basically) they are all from india, and are likely still IN India.. Their english is horrible and their skills are miserable. I use to think learning Cisco and passing the test would be hard.. Now I am not so sure.
One thing they have learned is the american blame game. it’s never them. it’s always something I did. Even when I prove them wrong with testing results..
One thing about industry certifications is the amount of cheating that goes on in other countries, especially China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Pakistan, and almost all of the Arabian peninsular countries.
The US testing centers are very strict. It is a joke in those other countries. In Pakistan, for example, they can bring in friends to sit by them when they take a test! Some have told me they know people who make their entire living being a “sit-by-me” friend just for this purpose. You don’t even need a brain dump to let someone else answer the questions for you.
Some may call it racist, but I will always test them before hiring.
One Pakistani MCSE in NT I interviewed could not tell me what DNS stood for, nor explain its concept nor how it worked.
One of my first questions on a call is to make sure they are not on a speakerphone, because it makes them even harder to understand.
It's too bad that management doesn't understand that they aren't really saving anything by hiring these folk. Maybe it's just us, but it really seems like we're scraping the bottom of the barrel talent-wise. We don't seem to have that problem with americans.