^^ It really helps if you're a Cisco shop to have CCIEs. Every place I've worked has offered to refund the cost of a cert after you pass (if the employee fails, the cost is on them), and it's had a pretty decent uptake among the more junior staff - as well as the CCIE re-certs. I'm not sure if Juniper have a similar type system of rewarding partners that are packed with certified engineers, but I wouldn't be surprised if they did. On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net> wrote:
On Sep 3, 2014, at 5:00 AM, Isaac Adams <isaacnanog@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey Folks,
I am trying to work out a strategy for vendor certification in our company. As a general rule, do you all fund employees certification and if so what kind of levels do you try to maintain as good practice?
For example. NOC staff should be JNCIA and engineering JNCIP to JNCIE?
Clearly certification does not usually reflect ability but it does help people feel valued and to maintain a basic level of competence.
Cisco discriminates against customers without certification and delays service and support to them as a result. (e.g.: you can’t open a sev 1 case online unless you are “CCIE”).
You likely want to have someone with this access in their account to speed access when there are network critical issues.
- Jared
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