Meh, I got a CISSP a few years ago to help pass HR filters. Nobody cared I had it and I found no value in being an ISC2 member, so I let it lapse.
It is listed as a requirement (or similar) on a lot of info sec jobs, but as far as I can tell it's like a lot of other job spec items; nice to have but not required.
Maybe there are companies who insist on it, but I'm not sure I would want to work for anyone that had such a rigid idea of its value. Could always get it again if I really needed to, only took me 2 weeks of study to pass originally. Possibly it has more value for more junior people.
I ran into the same thing more than a decade ago. The problem for me was that I was looking at software jobs, not security jobs. In hindsight that was a colossal mistake. I should have focused only on security and taught myself advanced programming on personal projects.
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Meh, I got a CISSP a few years ago to help pass HR filters. Nobody cared I had it and I found no value in being an ISC2 member, so I let it lapse.
It is listed as a requirement (or similar) on a lot of info sec jobs, but as far as I can tell it's like a lot of other job spec items; nice to have but not required.
Maybe there are companies who insist on it, but I'm not sure I would want to work for anyone that had such a rigid idea of its value. Could always get it again if I really needed to, only took me 2 weeks of study to pass originally. Possibly it has more value for more junior people.
I ran into the same thing more than a decade ago. The problem for me was that I was looking at software jobs, not security jobs. In hindsight that was a colossal mistake. I should have focused only on security and taught myself advanced programming on personal projects.