Re:The Best Way to Not Get Tenure
by seibelj on Sunday October 23, 2016 @01:18AM
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It's just tough to say whether he was truly "high impact" from his own article, giving his own opinions. Perhaps the research wasn't that good, perhaps the classes weren't that amazing. I don't know. Regardless, no one wants to work with someone who thinks they are god's gift to the world, even if they are! Which is where political / people / social skills can help immensely in avoiding career ending mistakes.
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I was basing that after watching a few of these after reading the article where it is linked: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLk97mPCd8nvbxGGfkYkBX.... I would have loved to had someone explain all these relevant things so clearly. I learned some stuff just from watching the few now even though I am a very senior internet person in industrial terms.
I did CS a rather strange way via military college so that's not the best sample, but when I took a programming languages class over the summer at Arizona State they had 300 students (yes really) in the lecture hall trying to learn C, C++, Scheme, and Prolog for the Sophomore/Junior level course. It was a total shit show, and if that had been my path to earning a degree and becoming a programmer I'd have hightailed it out of college. It's also an obvious head drop for diversity in the field. I've heard similar horror stories from colleagues from non-top tier CS schools. I'm inclined to believe he found and addressed problems, and had demonstrable success.