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Are these worth anything? I search Blind for Coursera stuff and see Google hiring managers writing 'if I see Coursera on a resume it devalues it' but yet you have Kent Walker at Google stating publicly that they treat their Google Professional Certificates on Coursera as equivalent to a 4 year degree when hiring. These statements contradict. I always thought it BS that I can do a 6 month course with no experience required and have it judged as equal to a 4 year degree but when the company states it publically? Is it all BS designed to sell the courses? Or do companies like Google actually value these?
The key bit here is that it's Google's own course. Just like universities give credit on admission for only their MOOCs, same here. No one wants to chance open education with a curriculum outside their control, since there is no unified accreditation body. For your resume, it's a corporate initiative. This means it has sway when corporate policy comes up at Google, and only at Google. The extent to which corporate policy works is a tossup, but should be a positive through the resume screen while HR themselves are the deciders. From there, you're in the land of proving yourself to people with university degrees who may or may not care or even be aware of "treat it as a bachelors" rules. Outside Google, it's the same "good job" as any other set of MOOCs. Looks good if it's extra to a university degree, but on its own is just a bare minimum to get that 1 in 200 recruiter call back. Having taken some MOOCs that are way harder than accredited classes and some that took like an hour, I get why organizations don't want to commit to them as a data point.
Thanks, this was super insightful. I was considering starting to enrol in them to build up a base of coding but it sounds like unless I quit my job to go to university which isn't happening any time soon then I'm SOL.
The goal should be to learn and not to show employers that you’ve got your education through coursera, udemy, or anywhere else. If you can apply what you’ve learned then that’s all that matters. You can mention about how you learn something when talking in interviews while simultaneously highlighting that you are a constant learner and how you identify your own gaps and fill them.
I agree with you for sure, I'm just genuinely interested if Google hiring managers for example see this course on a resume when paper screening applicants and actually take it seriously or not given that their own high ups state publicly that they view them internally as equivalent to 4 year degrees.