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Time to come clean! All of this was an experiment to see how many people would actually want to be certified by someone they had never met before. I am an experienced developer myself, but of course I don't have any popularity or authority.

I actually did get contacted by a 7 people (you know who you are) who actually "fell for it". No money was taken. No time was wasted, I told them up-front

Thank you for participating in this social experiment, disregard this thread



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Hello!

dGRAMOP Development is offering a new certification for web development. An experienced web developer will interview you, and have you complete an assessment. How you do determines your combined score out of 1000. Here is how you get scored:

300 points for front-end development (design)
1-50 === Little/no knowledge of front end design (Hello World)
50-100 === Extremely limited knowledge of front-end web design (I can understand it, just not write it)
100-150 === Good amount knowledge of front-end web design. Knowledge of most large libraries. This is where most new developers stand.
150-250 === Understands the concept of dynamic content, AJAX is a given. Also, web designers who make magic with CSS, and webkit is the holy bible.

500 points for backend development (development)
1-100 === no knowledge, (hello world!)
100-200 === Simple stuff like form handling, file saving.
200-250 === API's etc
250-350 === OOP, cryptography etc.
350-500 === Deep understanding, one of the best coders out there.

100 points for customer support

100 points for code quality, indentation etc.

You can skip whatever segments of the test you want, but you must take customer support and code quality.

The test is free to take as many times as you want, if you think you passed (you like your score), you get:
- a dGRAMOP Certified "badge"
- a written recommendation and proof of you taking the test, and when you took it

If you pay 2.50 USD per month, or get a full score (payed every two months over PayPal, free for full-scorers)
-Unlimited referrals (We will explain how you scored and how we graded you to a potential customer)
-Addition to our "board". We will send customers your way, depending on how you scored. If you scored higher than person "x", we will send a customer to you before we send one to person "x". It depends on what section you scored well in.

The certification will never expire, but there will be a time attached to your results, so people will know when you took this certification.

If you are interested in the certification, you can contact our representative and interviewer using skype:

dhruv.gram

A microphone is necessary, or you will lose points for customer support.
This test is administered after you take any of my courses.

Thank you for reading,
- A representative of dGRAMOP



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WTF...
certified by what organization, Joe Schmoe's School of HTML Mastery?

Certified by us. Best thing is that it is free, and you never really "pass", you get assessed. It is like a free vouch for people who know their stuff. If Joe Shmoe just puts a rubber stamp, no one cares. If Joe Shmoe tells the employer why they got the score, then that is a whole nother thing[DOUBLEPOST=1463793664][/DOUBLEPOST]HTML Mastery Kappa o_O
HTML is like instinct. There is no learning in HTML.
 

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Certified by us. Best thing is that it is free, and you never really "pass", you get assessed. It is like a free vouch for people who know their stuff. If Joe Shmoe just puts a rubber stamp, no one cares. If Joe Shmoe tells the employer why they got the score, then that is a whole nother thing[DOUBLEPOST=1463793664][/DOUBLEPOST]HTML Mastery Kappa o_O
HTML is like instinct. There is no learning in HTML.
I think first you need to build a reputation to prove you know the proper coding conventions and skills to test people of their abilities in coding. Also you'll need to prove that your graders won't be bias to their own unique coding conventions and they won't steal any templates/code that is used in these tests. Right now I don't believe you're at that level and I suggest you revise this idea or give out free assessments and post reports publicly on here with detailed explanations/reviews.
 

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We have a reputation IRL (locally), not really online.

"Right now I don't believe you're at that level and I suggest you revise this idea or give out free assessments and post reports publicly on here with detailed explanations/reviews."

1. It is "we", and all of us have at least 5 years of expereince
2. It is free. That is how it works. Please read it?![DOUBLEPOST=1463797788][/DOUBLEPOST]
Rather have a degree.....
Degrees cost $$$

You get it for free, and you receive an explanation.[DOUBLEPOST=1463797914][/DOUBLEPOST]"Also you'll need to prove that your graders won't be bias to their own unique coding conventions"
- not really. As long as they HAVE a coding convention :p

"and they won't steal any templates/code that is used in these tests."
- We will be talking to them how they went about the code, if they just go "idk"...
 

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Don't mean to be rude, but your account is very new. You don't really have any reputation, and no one on MCM really knows you. Having a certification from someone like that doesn't really mean anything. In my opinion, certifications in general are kind of worthless, if I were a client I would be more interested in previous client reviews than certifications.

Best of luck with it anyway, maybe it will work out once you have a better reputation here.
 
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