{"id":685,"date":"2004-01-03T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-03T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=685"},"modified":"2004-01-03T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-01-03T16:00:00","slug":"brainbench-waste-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=685","title":{"rendered":"BrainBench &#8212; waste of time?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, there&#8217;s this thing called brainbench out there, which is basically standardized testing in specific skills (say, java, c, linux, balancing a checkbook, whatever).  You pay to get certified by them as competent.  Two separate job sites have linked to them.  At first I thought it was a total waste of time and money.  It&#8217;s kinda alluring, though.  I mean, I know I would kick ass on it, but I kinda wonder if it&#8217;s worth the time and money.  Anybody out there know anything about it, have any opinions to share?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, there&#8217;s this thing called brainbench out there, which is basically standardized testing in specific skills (say, java, c, linux, balancing a checkbook, whatever). You pay to get certified by them as competent. Two separate job sites have linked to them. At first I thought it was a total waste of time and money. It&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=685\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BrainBench &#8212; waste of time?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}