We ran the numbers, and there really is a pipeline problem in engineering hiring

Re:We ran the numbers, and there really is a pipeline proble... by TrinaryWorksToo on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @10:11AM (#21702784)

I am one of them. I have no college degree of any kind and bested CS grads in an interview.

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Re:We ran the numbers, and there really is a pipeline proble... by commandlinefan on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @03:11PM (#21706401)

> I'd like to see some proof that there's a large pool

> I am one of them

You, yourself, are a large pool? Or you, yourself are one instance of a fairly small pool (like OP suggests).

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Re:We ran the numbers, and there really is a pipeline proble... by TrinaryWorksToo on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @05:19PM (#21707830)

I am proof a pool exists.

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Re:We ran the numbers, and there really is a pipeline proble... by filoleg on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @05:29PM (#21707921)

A pool of statistical outliers is not a "big pool" that the parent comment was referring too. There are quite a few brilliant software engineers I got a chance to work with who had no college education whatsoever, but they are very clearly outliers among very few. I strongly doubt there is some big untapped pool of engineers without degrees who are just being completely overlooked simply for not having a degree.

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Re:We ran the numbers, and there really is a pipeline proble... by TrinaryWorksToo on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @09:55PM (#21709593)

How could we use Newton's flaming laser sword to settle our argument?

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