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Where are you based? In many countries a CS degree is no guarantee of rigor, teamwork or even ability to program. Most universities just focus on the computer s
by joefourier 8y ago
Where are you based? In many countries a CS degree is no guarantee of rigor, teamwork or even ability to program. Most universities just focus on the computer science theoreticals (after all, it's not a software engineering degree), while the programming is restricted to artificial toy problems.
If you come from a degree-obsessed country like Germany I would hypothesise that you are confusing correlation with causation - smart, competent individuals with the capacity to work in teams go to university because they understand the importance of the degree to increase their hirability, but a 4 year degree not change a cowboy coder into thr above.
- eksemplar 8y agoI’m Danish and there is certainly a reason n the better programmers have educations, I mean, why wouldn’t they? Not only is education free, the state gives you $1000 a month to study and our culture expects you to have an education. There would almost have to be something wrong with you not to get one. That being said, I’m old, I’ve been around since before IT educations were really a thing outside of research and science, and people with degrees are just better at working in enterprise. I’ve had really excellent autodidactic people write marvelous stuff, that was horribly documented and full of hacks that made it really inefficient in the long run, and that just hasn’t happened with people that had degrees. I still see and hear if the rockstar mentality today, from the manager networks I’m part if, and it’s almost always from employees who haven’t had any schooling.