Ask HN: Can someone without a degree expect to get a job in tech today? (EU)

Re:Ask HN: Can someone without a degree expect to get a job ... by PaulHoule on Monday August 15, 2022 @05:25PM (#32475594)

I'd imagine there is one "UX researcher" job for every 100 "UX practitioner" job.

Maybe 90 of those practitioner jobs work on things that are routine that she might find boring but there are probably more places that develop advanced UIs than that claim to do research on UX.

If she doesn't know any frontend frameworks at all, however, I don't see how she'd expect to make it as a "UX researcher". I'd expect such a person to at the very least have a deep knowledge of one kind of system if not a broad understanding of UX systems in general.

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Re:Ask HN: Can someone without a degree expect to get a job ... by BazookaMusic on Monday August 15, 2022 @05:54PM (#32475948)

On the contrary, I'd say she would really like to become more of a UX practicioner. She is more excited by the idea of implementing UIs rather than just doing user research.

To reframe the question around this. Her master's degree is from the Humanities and around research design, with her focusing on UX research. She wants to pivot towards frontend development and UI design but is afraid that she won't be able to get in due to her degree not being from a comp sci/tech university. Is it possible to break in just through projects and a decent portfolio?

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Re:Ask HN: Can someone without a degree expect to get a job ... by PaulHoule on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @08:28AM (#32481921)

Yes. Maybe not at the very top (FAANG) but many smaller firms need design work done all the time. A good portfolio is key.

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