What's your most controversial programming opinion?

Re:What's your most controversial programming opinion? by gfodor on Saturday December 18, 2010 @01:58PM (#2019990)

The top items don't seem to be very controversial, but instead seem to be "things that good programmers think are true, and bad ones don't."

Here's mine: if you haven't gone through a respectable 4 year CS program, odds are I'm not going to want to hire you since your brain isn't wired to think about algorithms and data structures instead of code and servers.

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Re:What's your most controversial programming opinion? by pjscott on Saturday December 18, 2010 @03:53PM (#2020262)

Surely there's a more direct way to determine how someone's brain is wired? Have a conversation with them about some algorithm or data structure. A four-year CS program is definitely not the only way to learn that sort of thing.

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Re:What's your most controversial programming opinion? by gfodor on Saturday December 18, 2010 @11:04PM (#2021049)

I guess the point here is that I won't even bother bringing in/phone screening candidates without the CS degree. (Sans those who have referrals.)

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Re:What's your most controversial programming opinion? by olalonde on Saturday December 18, 2010 @02:33PM (#2020072)

Might be controversial on HN but certainly not elsewhere. Most recruiters do require a CS/engineering degree.

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