Thread by @QuinnyPig

Great question! A thread.

https://twitter.com/cooleditphoto/status/1346510763972767761

You're always going to need a piece of paper that says you know things. Eventually it becomes a list of jobs in which you've solved hard problems.

At the start of your career it's a different story. You've got a degree; that's more than I had.

Certifications aren't a bad step. They demonstrate that I can talk about cloud concepts with you and expect you to understand them at a high level.

The "best" approach though is a project or two in which you demonstrate what you've done. @forrestbrazeal's Cloud Resume Challenge is great for this.

Contributing to the Open Guide to AWS is also a good step. Our Slack community (13K people strong now!) lives at slackhatesthe.cloud

Now, what's shitty about all of this is that it requires you to basically either pay for courses, certs, or "volunteer" your time to open source. That path isn't open to everyone.

I don't know how to fix that.