Has anyone benefited from course certificates?

Question

Professional Certification

Did not take courses. Why pay for knowledge that is available for free?
I understand that the courses are convenient and practical for changing professions.
I do not understand one thing - certificates were useful to someone?
For example, htmlacademy has already pricked the eyes of its joyful graduates with certificates in the style of "passed the html and css course, part 1". Are they quoted?
Did certificates help anyone find a job?
Do certifications add weight to a portfolio?

Answer 1

Certificates from courses - no.
Certificates from exams from the vendor - yes. Their number among employees in the company is even sometimes interested in tenders / sales.

Answer 2

they help the employer to weed out
, and of course they are quoted, especially in India

Answer 3

Sometimes, when with mats a "certificate from the zhek for 20 .. the 12th year" was very urgently needed - a certificate comes to hand (I have 1 of it).
Take it, look at it, read what kind of expert you are (theoretically) and your self-esteem and self-respect rises. True, only 1-1.5%, but still ...

Answer 4

Not everyone is willing to spend time searching for information. There are employers who indicate that the presence of some courses is a plus. There are courses with certification in the form of a hard exam, for example, Yelts for English or Magento Developer Certification.
Plus they have it, but not to say that the presence of a certificate is an Uber feature, as people live without them and don’t blow their heads

Answer 5

not courses, but certification.
OCA Java. especially in the book on exam preparation as expounded by Mala Gupta.
the best course of rho basics of java.
points the brain in the right direction about how the java machine works.
comes in handy almost every day, especially when younger programs see code that, in their opinion, should not work))) or when you fix problems in their code.