Comment YANPLGA (yet another positive linuxgruven account) (Score 1) 163
Most of those that have replied either outright hate Linuxgruven or are employed currently. Hardly impartial evidence, so I'll give this a shot.
I may work for linuxgruven, but I haven't decided yet. I don't neccessarily need to as I am amployed currently as a contractor. However that said as some of you may know this Linux thing (that I'm all for and have been using since '97 the thought of not having to get up at 4:00 am and fixing someone's stupid MS Backoffice server is enormously appealing)is something that is really hard to prove you're competent in without having been employed by a company that uses it. That being said linuxgruven is a good oppportunity and I will probably end out teaching or something for them.
Anyway, when I went on the interview I was told that I could take their course, Sair's, or Tony's house of Linux (a Microsoft backed company I suspect) and as long as I handed them a cert that was in Linux/GNU they would let me in. They didn't care. However in the interview the made you take a base skills test, making sure that you weren't a drooling idiot.
At this point I went to the class (in the am, I shut down all morning calls for about a month as I could get there in the afternoon if I had to). This class was quite comprehensive and helped out quite a bit. Worth 2500? No, unless the company's paying for it (which, in a sense, they are). But worth a good sum? Yes.
For the sake of arguement I also looked at what it would cost to take the sair course. 5000 was the cheapest I found. That isn't good, so I went with linuxgruven's.
5 weeks later I took the test. This test not only includes the standard write the answer down questions, but is like Cisco in that it requires you to do a hands-on and troubleshooting portion. All of which make this a little more worth while.
So, to review, yes the price is steep. Yes, it sounds like a scam. But the final answer is that they are desperate to get people into this field as it is very understaffed. At last count there is something like 80 LCA's running around and linuxgruven has half or so of them.
Makes me wonder if perhaps they know more than we do.
|Rob Hutchins (KoolKustom181@hotmail.com)
I may work for linuxgruven, but I haven't decided yet. I don't neccessarily need to as I am amployed currently as a contractor. However that said as some of you may know this Linux thing (that I'm all for and have been using since '97 the thought of not having to get up at 4:00 am and fixing someone's stupid MS Backoffice server is enormously appealing)is something that is really hard to prove you're competent in without having been employed by a company that uses it. That being said linuxgruven is a good oppportunity and I will probably end out teaching or something for them.
Anyway, when I went on the interview I was told that I could take their course, Sair's, or Tony's house of Linux (a Microsoft backed company I suspect) and as long as I handed them a cert that was in Linux/GNU they would let me in. They didn't care. However in the interview the made you take a base skills test, making sure that you weren't a drooling idiot.
At this point I went to the class (in the am, I shut down all morning calls for about a month as I could get there in the afternoon if I had to). This class was quite comprehensive and helped out quite a bit. Worth 2500? No, unless the company's paying for it (which, in a sense, they are). But worth a good sum? Yes.
For the sake of arguement I also looked at what it would cost to take the sair course. 5000 was the cheapest I found. That isn't good, so I went with linuxgruven's.
5 weeks later I took the test. This test not only includes the standard write the answer down questions, but is like Cisco in that it requires you to do a hands-on and troubleshooting portion. All of which make this a little more worth while.
So, to review, yes the price is steep. Yes, it sounds like a scam. But the final answer is that they are desperate to get people into this field as it is very understaffed. At last count there is something like 80 LCA's running around and linuxgruven has half or so of them.
Makes me wonder if perhaps they know more than we do.
|Rob Hutchins (KoolKustom181@hotmail.com)
