Re:What is the engineering hiring bar?
by introvert0 on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @02:42PM
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You do realize you make a disservice to those who studied and worked hard to obtain a proper engineering degree, right?
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Re:What is the engineering hiring bar?
by username90 on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @04:40PM
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Firstly software engineer is not a protected title in most of the world.
Secondly the major way to properly learn proper software engineering is to join a top company and learn on the job. I don't see software engineering degrees containing anything useful at all compared to computer science degrees, they just contain some ancient practices which most of the industry moved past ages ago. So I don't really see how someone who studied software engineering at school is more of a software engineer than a person who designs and builds distributed systems at Google.
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Re:What is the engineering hiring bar?
by erik_seaberg on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @05:56PM
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The "Fundamentals of Engineering - Electrical and Computer" exam requires topics from differential equations to impedance in AC circuits to op-amps to frequency modulation. I would never gong a candidate for not knowing any of those things, because we write computer software; we don't make our own servers out of magnetite and sand.