I would hate to see a CCIE with no work experience, but the last guy who announced his passing the CCIE lab in this group a few weeks ago, not only had no experience in the real world with routers or Cisco stuff, he claimed that he got his CCNA to CCIE in 9 months!!!
I was shocked, and unless he's lying, there's at least one out there who has his CCIE, and never saw a router in production. Not only that, he didn't have to troubleshoot in his lab ( no longer a requirement), so who knows if he ever troubleshot a router/network issue, WAN. LAN, etc, (which is huge part of job), who knows if he ever provisioned a network, or even knows the product line! I agree that I wouldn't expect a salary of over $40-50K. I'm not sure if I'd even hire one with no experience. ""John Neiberger"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > I'd be surprised if you could find a CCIE with no work experience. Even > if you could, they wouldn't be worth that much, IMHO. Assuming I pass > in April, I'll have just over three years experience and a CCIE > certification. What does that mean? > > Well, it means that if I leave my current job to look for work > elsewhere, I'll be going up against CCIEs with 5-7+ years experience > plus degrees. Someone with only three years experience still isn't > going to be the most marketable person around. > > If you somehow managed to get CCIE and have no work experience at all, > I wouldn't expect a starting salary higher than a CCNA. > > John > > >>> "Joe Carr" 1/31/02 11:26:39 AM >>> > what would be the average starting pay for CCIE with no work > experience. Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=33910&t=33899 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
