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We looked at a degree as an indicator that this person can stick at something for 3-4 years. For some jobs this was a good thing, for other jobs it didn't matt
by monk_e_boy 11y ago
We looked at a degree as an indicator that this person can stick at something for 3-4 years.
For some jobs this was a good thing, for other jobs it didn't matter.
I've had jobs where my manager didn't have a CS degree, one of them I had to sit him down and explain why his ad-hoc database made out of .txt files and thousands of lines of C# code wasn't a good idea. A CS degree forces you to know about a broad range of ideas and tools (e.g. databases). This is useful. Employing someone with out that means they may have holes in their knowledge that you aren't expecting to be there. But give this person some motivation and a week and they'll get up to speed.
- busterarm 11y agoI had another skilled tech career with 15 years experience before switching to software and all of my employment has been in the 1-5 year range, more towards the latter. Despite my lack of degree, I tend to be one of the more CS-oriented people on the teams I join. I put this upfront in my portfolio & github with the projects I show off, namely that I've written an ORM, a Web Server, games with AI using game trees and behavior trees, contributed to some popular OSS, etc...even some random odd stuff like emulators, disassembler scripts, pentest tools, etc., I guess I do have some gaps but I'm constantly trying to fill them and I'm not satisfied to rest on that knowledge.
- thrownaway2424 11y agoShoot, I got that beat. I spent 5 years and still don't have a degree.