Hi mate.
IMO if your company takes no part in supporting you the way you would
like them to support you, you don't have to accept whatever lame support
they can offer. Nor do you have to associate your number with them
afterwords. Talk to them openly and check if this scenario would be an
issue for them.
An option for you may be if they can boost your salary after you have
passed to make it up for your expenses. Even in Europe where wages are
relatively low for CCIEs, it should be a boost in salary once you pass.
In any case, if a company is benefiting from having a CCIE aboard, they
should be willling to pay for that one way or the other.
HTH
A.
On 9/12/2011 6:09 PM, Calin C. wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have here an ethical problem, more than a technical one and I said to ask you guys, maybe somebody can give me an advice.
>
> Scenario is the following.
>
> For some time now I've been preparing for CCIE entirely on my own costs (learning in my spare time, rack rental / equipment acquisition, exam fee, accomodation, travel...).I sit to an exam a while ago (about a year) and fail. Came back home and start preparing again.
>
> Now I want to sit to another lab in some months and I was thinking that maybe a bootcamp will help. I've ask around some friends and one of them confirmed that he was in a bootcamp (company name not important, location Germany) and costs were about 20.000 euro ( 3 weeks bootcamp, accomodation, travel...). This is a lot of money for me and I was thinking to ask my company to support me. I've found a cheaper bootcamp (5 days around 2.200 euro + accomodation and travel, let's say up to 3.500 euro). I've presented the above numbers to my company and their answer was that they are willing to support me, but only for the efective cost of the exam itself.
>
> Maybe it's important to say that I have other certifications (CCNP, CCIP, CXFS...) which are registered to my company for Cisco partnership.
>
> Finally we arrive to my issue:
>
> I will keep on supporting my way to CCIE on my own costs (let's say that the 5 days bootcamp I could afford to pay by my own, or buy the workbooks and practice on my own rack). I this case, my question is, if I will get a CCIE number, this will be automatically assigned to the company that I'm registered with? I've tried to explain to them that if this is the case, I would find it a little bit unfair to use my number. The cost of the exam itself is nothing compared to the rest of efforts.
>
> Please don't get me wrong. I'm fully satisfied with the company that I'm working on and I don't want to leave it. From financial and social perspective I'm happy with my position. I just want them to understand that nothing in life is free and CCIE comes with a costs that I have to either recover somehow or they need to sponsor my efforts.
>
> Any input will be appreciated (especially to my question about CCIE number - company relationship).
>
> Thanks for reading this long e-mail!
>
> Calin
>
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