^^ 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 <ja...@puck.nether.net> wrote: > >> On Sep 3, 2014, at 5:00 AM, Isaac Adams <isaacna...@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 -- Trent Farrell Riot Games IP Network Engineer E: tfarr...@riotgames.com | IE: +353 83 446 6809 | US: +1 424 285 9825 Summoner name: Foro
