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How should your company sponsor programming certification

Say your company is willing to sponsor the fees for taking programming certification examination. What is the best aproach to implement this? I would say if the programmer passes the exam at the first try, it shoud be fully sponsored. If the programmer doesn't pass the first try, the 2nd exam should be 50% sponsored. If failed 3rd tim...

Are you using any ranking lists in your team? E.g. TOP 10 list of most broken builds per day

I was wondering what kind of ranking lists (if any) you use in your team. What is their purpose and how do you reward/punish someone who join the list? Do you have any special ceremonies in case of a new rank ...? Here is a list of ranks I heard about and some of them been using myself: TOP 10 list of most broken builds per day TOP 10...