Ask HN: Do companies accept self-taught programmers?

Re:Ask HN: Do companies accept self-taught programmers? by iolothebard on Sunday July 05, 2015 @07:06AM (#9833168)

Typically with years of experience substituted for a degree.

For example, if hiring someone with a CS/MIS/CIS degree with 4 years experience. We'd accept 8 years experience in lieu of a degree.

If you find learning in college boring, what do you think this field holds for you? You have a world full of knowledge you could be learning if you're bored, no professor is preventing you from becoming knowledgeable across many programming disciplines.

It seems you don't even have a rudimentary idea of what goes into building software yet, you just want to skip ahead to the getting paid part.

If you can't build your project/idea already, why would someone pay you to work?

Keep learning, you've got a very long way to go. Good luck!

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Re:Ask HN: Do companies accept self-taught programmers? by jpwagner on Sunday July 05, 2015 @09:22AM (#9833451)

  "...with 4 years experience. We'd accept 8 years experience in lieu of a degree."

I don't necessarily think this is a bad policy, but the idea of counting someone's freshman year at university as a year of experience makes me chuckle a little.

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Re:Ask HN: Do companies accept self-taught programmers? by cognitivesys on Sunday July 05, 2015 @09:16AM (#9833426)

http://100rsns.blogspot.com/p/complete-list-to-date.html

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