Holy cow!!! I go away for a few days and find this thread!!! I would assume if you have a lower CCIE number you have more experience. As time goes the CCIE will get easier just as the technology in some areas is more homogonized. That is, years ago the CCIE lab exam may have tested token ring, atm lane, and ethernet. From what I understand the older technologies have been removed from the lab exam and given room on the written. Which, I presume, is to hold down the number of CCIE's. It's a fine line for Cisco. I presume the goal of every computer related technology company is to make it so easy even the secretary can setup the server, switch, router and internet connection. Think of Windows2000...is it the MCSE or is it that windows is, relatively speaking, easy. (What did the trade rags say a few years ago about Linux not making it...no gui!) Corporations would rather pay a few lunk heads $45,000 and millions in licensing fees than pay few good geeks six figure salaries to run something they can't fathom. (Duh, how hard could this be...it's on my laptop...da same one I use to cook the books to defraud Wall Street and the IRS...which my lawyer says if we ever get caught I will never do jail time and I can hide the money in off shore banks and say I am broke.) They could sell a ton of equipment since companies would not have the labor overhead to go with it. Eventually the field will get overcrowded. In the sixties aeronautical engineers were the rage as airlines were booming and NASA was answering to JFK's call to put a man on the moon. Those days are over, as are the days of the nuclear engineer when nuclear power plants were the way to go. I am persuing the damn thing so I'm not left out in the cold. I have seen job postings for IT management positions which state, don't bother if you haven't at least passed the written portion of the CCIE.
As far as my experiences go with interviews... They think it's nice I got the certs but they don't care...except for the Value Added Resellers who want to resell me to the mom and pop's who are still running NetWare 3.12. Most look at what I have done in a production environment. Hope this was lengthy enough!!! Mitch ----- Original Message ----- From: "The Road Goes Ever On" To: Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 4:32 PM Subject: Re: number of CCIE [7:70151] > ""n rf"" wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The Road Goes Ever On wrote: > > > > snip for brevety > > > > > > > One person's opinion. Have you any statistics to back that up? > > > have passing > > > rates gone up or down? over what time period? with what > > > technologies being > > > tested? > > > > Again, I have the simple thought question - being perfectly honest, would > > you want to trade your number for a lower one or not? The prosecution > rests. > > > > Call me a pollyanna if you will, but I consider such a thing as a kind of > misrepresentation, and as such, I would not choose to be a party to it. > Which is easy enough for me to say because this is a straw argument, one > that cannot be honestly answered, because the fact is, no one is ever going > to make that offer to you, me, or anyone else. > > > > > > > snip for brevity Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=70434&t=70151 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
