*I'm wondering what everyone's opinions are on the value of certifications for software engineering specifically?* Any other related opinions on the matter are welcome as well.
For ops there are some vendors specific certs like the AWS or Microsoft certifications that used to carry weight. Currently, with the increased use of cloud services I'd probably lean toward AWS for SWE too.
In the past, the most valued certs were from Cisco for network engineering. Those were / are really good networking education even if you don't care about the cert.