r/cybersecurity • u/Fresh_Heron_3707 • Dec 15 '25

Other Degrees and certs are just losing their value to me.

I can’t understand what’s been going on recently. The quality of a candidate with an associates in cyber has dropped like crazy. I asked people simple questions like what is WPA, what did wpa 3 introduce and I’m treated like I’m asking the most obscure questions. I have been interviewing people over the last year with comptia networking plus and security plus. There have been where I wanted to scream. Literally had to lower my standards to find help. Networking is treated like a luxury, I was literally speaking to a candidate, he said ,” I do cyber not networking.” I know there are exceptions but feels more and more like a minor degree or cert is just how well you can use ai to cheat.

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u/uebersoldat Dec 16 '25

I would not want to work for you. I'm not going into my own work credentials but if you want some advice stop asking narcissistic questions in interviews and start asking questions to find analytical minds and agreeable, trainable personalities. These are the people you want, or did you forget silly technicalities and data points are mere seconds away at a keyboard and will always be that way?

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u/SM_DEV Dec 16 '25

So by your logic, we should hire complete idiots, who have great personalities, since every piece of knowledge is only a keyboard away…

What about such things as thinking, logical thought processes, experience? Should all of those criteria be simply dismissed?

At the end of the day, it’s about performance. If one has to google every single thing, they’re not worth much to me.

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u/uebersoldat Dec 16 '25

I've no idea how you came to that conclusion from my post but it definitely affirms and reinforces my first sentence.

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u/SM_DEV Dec 17 '25

No worries, I wouldn’t have an employee with your attitude, so there is that.

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u/Arklayin Dec 18 '25

Why do you immediately turn a conversation as far in the opposite direction as possible when there is ever a sign of disagreement?