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Re:Is getting a CS degree only way to get Software engineeri... by Bucephalus355 on Thursday December 06, 2018 @11:09PM (#18625070)
Not since the “great H1-B famine of 2018”. I work for one of the larger accounting / consulting firms. We are rolling a program out next year to hire directly out of high school (!). They are going to take care of the whole training pipeline themselves. Apparently they modeled it after what Nucor Steel does: http://www.nucor.com/careers/training/technical-academy/
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Re:Is getting a CS degree only way to get Software engineeri... by kkarakk on Friday December 07, 2018 @12:46AM (#18625420)
oh wow this is going to create a whole lot of "people who can't do anything else& think in very particular ways"
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Re:Is getting a CS degree only way to get Software engineeri... by reidjs on Friday December 07, 2018 @01:59AM (#18625671)
What makes you think that? I don’t think a college degree is strictly necessary to be an intelligent person.
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Re:Is getting a CS degree only way to get Software engineeri... by kkarakk on Friday December 07, 2018 @02:19AM (#18625735)
your education influences how you think. universities and colleges invariably have political stances and the provision to learn the good/bad of the same. i shudder to think what a company will do to kids straight out of highschool with the same amount of time

unions bad! does work life balance really matter? are conservative ideologies really better fundamentally? these are viewpoints you can EASILY inculcate in a teenager given the right amount of motivation(responsibilities,perks,money,being treated as an adult etc etc)

i can't see how a company would NOT abuse this. it's a golden opportunity to create drones that work perfectly ONLY in your culture

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Re:Is getting a CS degree only way to get Software engineeri... by iwiririwo on Friday December 07, 2018 @04:17AM (#18626174)
This. Thank you for putting my vague thoughts into words.

Teenagers deserve time to think about stuff and to adults.

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