BusinessJan 2026 4 · 4 min read
Portfolio Over Certificates: What Indian Studios Actually Hire For
Certificates signal you completed a course. A shipped Play Store title, however modest, signals you can actually finish something — studios weight these very differently.
Why this matters now
We've hired developers with no formal degree over candidates with strong certifications purely because they had one small, complete, published game to show.
What we're actually seeing
Studios that treat this as a one-time fix rather than an ongoing practice tend to see the gains fade within a quarter — the teams getting lasting results build it into their regular process.
Our recommendation
If you're job-hunting in Indian game dev, ship something small end-to-end before your next application — it will outweigh another certificate.
Written by
Sandeep Kumar Tiwari
Founder & CEO, Enixo Studio
Leads studio strategy and full-cycle production at Enixo — from first pitch call to live-ops handover.
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2 comments
JinxTheRogue 2 days ago
This is exactly the kind of breakdown I needed — saved for the next sprint planning.
PixelPilot 1 day ago
Curious how this holds up on lower-end mobile hardware?
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