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here:  I am considering investing time to learn Hadoop and it's
related technologies. The problem is that my current day job
will not be using Hadoop any time soon and even if I learn from
books, blogs personal projects I will not have much to backup
when I actually need to show that I have Hadoop experience.  So
while continuing my job I would like to invest into my own
training and I am thinking about Hadoop certification from
cloudera. What do you think about it?  Please answer from your
perspective (if you took the certification and training course
or are in the market for hiring new hadoop developers and what
do you look for)  I am sure that there is no shortcut to
becoming an expert in Hadoop, but certification and training
seems like a jump start.  share|improve this question  marked as
duplicate by MichaelT, gnat, GlenH7, Yusubov, Robert Harvey Jul
22 '13 at 15:38   If I were a responsible of hiring in my
company (I'm not), I wouldn't contr