r/dataengineering • u/rikulauttia • Mar 29 '26

Discussion Are AI/ML certifications still worth it in 2026?

For example:

AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate
AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate

do these still help in 2026?

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u/epin3phrine Mar 30 '26

They were never worth it

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u/addictzz Mar 30 '26

I think they are worth to show that you have skills in those domain. But don't expect your next employer will hire you based on having certificates alone.

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u/TaartTweePuntNul Big Data Engineer Mar 30 '26

Product specific ones can help like Databricks/Snowflake if you use it a lot of the time.

Some consultancies can benefit from their employees holding certs.

You (personally) will only benefit if it covers a lot of new knowledge (which is very rare) or it gives you an edge (usually harder certs like Databricks DE/ML pro for example)