Re:There Are 101 Americans with Over $1M in Student Loans
by eksemplar on Sunday May 27, 2018 @04:01AM
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A lot of people with degrees get sorted out if the screen prossee along with people who have no degrees. Because you’re absolutely right, university CS doesn’t necessarily make great programmers.
If I’m hiring for a programming job I typically prefer people with academy or engineering degrees though. They are taught less theory and more application.
A degree isn’t all we look at though, we’ll also look at your public code repository, but we won’t take a look unless you have a degree because we need you to do both theory and application, and we need you to have learned best practices in both.
I’m not saying people without degrees are useless mind you, I just don’t want to spend time finding the ones who aren’t, when I don’t have to.
Part of the problem is that most CS degrees are not software engineering degrees. Some will have modules that are relevant, but mostly these are not compulsory. As a result a CS degree is often a poor predictor of whether or not someone knows the processes around it, and even a poor predictor of whether or not someone can program.