Do you have the said certification and have you applied for a formal job successfully with it? It will be more credible to talk from experience than assumption.
Don’t get me wrong, a developer that never went to college can have skills far better than a grad and can still get a job.
Emphasis here is on ‘formal’. In the organized private or public sector, one of the challenges in the HR department is with employee placement. How would you place [along the work cadre] say, an employee with masters in computer science with one who has far better coding/developer skills but does not have a degree? Are you going to place the one with better skills on a higher grade than the one with masters? No you won’t and that is where it gets tricky.
Most organizational positions are ranked according to formal academic qualifications from recognized training institutions (or from years of experience on the job). That is why sometimes, to get promoted, you might need to get further qualifications. It’s just an objective way of rating competence as it is quite difficult to do so otherwise.
However, newer organizations (startups) are screwing the rules and we can screw them further if we have a similar way to objectively rate skills not backed up with academic credentials. If you know of any such measures, maybe you can answer on this post I created sometime ago: How do you measure the performance of a developer?