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More like 5 if people want to use the term "engineer" on their CV.
by eeZah7Ux 9y ago
More like 5 if people want to use the term "engineer" on their CV.
- bigspider421 9y agoDisagree. Engineer here - I did a 6 week bootcamp and immediately got hired at Amazon. $150k+, the most I've ever been paid. Still learning tons but my experience was quite positive.
- ex_amazon_sde 9y agoI've been interviewing a lot of people when I was in Amazon and the company had a much, much higher bar.
- jefflombardjr 9y agoIt was also likely a much, much smaller company.
- josefresco 9y agoPhD prob helped.
- bigspider421 9y agoMy degree is completely unrelated to CS. Although I do have a strong math background which possibly helped...
- xenihn 9y agoWhat'd you learn in the bootcamp that (you believe) helped you get the role? And what was the application/interview process like?
- sotojuan 9y agoMaybe in other countries, but in the US a programmer or software engineer is not bound by any regulations on the title "engineer". Many top computer science programs are not in their university's engineering department and many top universities are not ABET-certified.
- bdcravens 9y agoIn the US "engineer" among developers is just a word - there are people with one Javascript framework and killer Stack Overflow copy-and-paste skills calling themselves "software engineers". As I said in a thread about this very topic, I feel that a better title is "software technician" (in the same sense as a automotive technician or a dental technician)