Online exam revoked due to FaceTime Emojis (MacBook)

I think it can really be. For many, an AWS certification isn’t something they get on top of a good university degree; it’s something they get on top of a basic education or on top of a degree of a university of very low status.

Let say you’re poor in India, got through high school, but didn’t get stellar results.

Now, you manage to get a job in a big city on the basis that you’ll have to get a certification within half a year or lose the job if you fail. So, you borrow money to move to a big city, then this happens. Given that there are many, many in India vying for such jobs and that you’re now in debt, you may never get another chance.

> Bad software is bad software.

Are you referring to the OS feature of automatically inserting emojis into webcam? Then yes -- I agree. Even if it was an amazing and very useful feature (which I dont think it is) it should have been strictly opt-in. Not a "pre-checked" or heavily pushed feature that most users were lead to click agree-agree on when installing the update.

> The comments are hilarious though, I had no idea anyone cared about AWS certifications that much to call them "Career Ending"

I can imagine this being deeply disruptive to short-term career plans for many aspiring professionals in junior roles, with not a lot of financial independence and safety net. Especially in developing countires like India (which I can speak about) -- and I imagine even more so for lower income countries.

These certification exams cost $150 to $300 -- not counting any other spend on training courses, AWS labs etc -- each of which must have been a significant financial decision for many candidates that are either at the beginning of their careers or trying to break into IT industry.

At entry to medium levels of IT careers -- these are given enough importance in hiring.

In some cases in order to keep an existing job, certifications may be a condition (for instance -- someone is on a PIP and getting a relevant cert was one criteria. Yes this happens.)

Yes - extremely poorly thought out from Apple.

Has caught out multiple people at my workplace. Feature is buried in the camera pipeline of MacOS, had assumed it was a bug in zoom that it could not be properly disabled - until same thing happened in a msteams call too, so realized it wasn't the zoom feature recognition triggering!

Leetcode is taken seriously too by some. There's a thick layer of Ark B types that think they're extremely useful, because when you just have a list tick boxes, you don't need to think about it and no one can blame you for following the process (the person with more ticks wins).