Sorry, College Grads, I Probably Won't Hire You

Re:Sorry, College Grads, I Probably Won't Hire You by TheCoelacanth on Friday May 10, 2013 @03:01PM (#5688031)

> Consider this example: Suppose you're sitting in a meeting with clients, and someone asks you how long a certain digital project is slated to take. Unless you understand the fundamentals of what engineers and programmers do, unless you're familiar enough with the principles and machinations of coding to know how the back end of the business works, any answer you give is a guess and therefore probably wrong.

Even when you do understand the fundamentals of what engineers and programmers do, any answer is still usually a guess and probably wrong.

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Re:Sorry, College Grads, I Probably Won't Hire You by ikailan on Friday May 10, 2013 @04:50PM (#5688602)

Agree with your comment.

I wonder if this is what non-programmers think the advantages of understanding programming are? Looks like the author has never actually held a real programming job (http://www.linkedin.com/pub/kirk-mcdonald/0/4/824).

Learning programming skills does have some benefits in learning problem solving. I'll never tell someone NOT to dabble in code, but I don't think the benefits are as pronounced as this article is making it sound to self-teach a tiny bit of programming. There's an earlier comment that states that it might hurt more to know a little; I can see where that viewpoint is coming from.

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Re:Sorry, College Grads, I Probably Won't Hire You by stmchn on Friday May 10, 2013 @04:21PM (#5688475)

Hell, my job is programming and even the estimates I give are probably wrong.

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