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>We need an industry agreed-upon certification exam.

I'm an actuary who had to take 10 of these for my profession (pass rates 20%-40% each sitting, takes 4 months to study for each one).

They come with the same complaints about false negatives, unrealistic/random questions, and fairness that technical interviews have.



Ok, but at least you only had to do each one once, and not repeat those tests for every job interview.


To do the ten exams is ~3,000 hours of studying. A typical job interview is, say, 6 hours. So that's equivalent to 500 job interviews. Now I suppose if you job hop A LOT then you could reach that number but I expect for most people it's not going to happen. I'm about halfway done with my career and have had <50 interviews.




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