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The people you would recruit that way would be way different than the people you recruit from college; it doesn't work very well. How do I know this? My countr
by IdiocyInAction 8y ago
The people you would recruit that way would be way different than the people you recruit from college; it doesn't work very well.
How do I know this? My country has an apprenticeship system and software developer is actually an option, but nobody does this because it doesn't work very well. My company tried it; the person failed to produce even very rudimentary programs.
College really isn't about the education it provides; it is all about signalling that you can deal with deadlines, people and semi-complex problems. That signal often doesn't work though.
- arethuza 8y agoYMMV The company I work for has taken on a few people through a apprenticeship scheme straight from high school and they've all been superb.
- IdiocyInAction 8y agoThat's interesting, did you have any kind of pre-selection? What area was the job in? In my case, it was development of tooling in Java and C++. It's not that I can't imagine it working - in fact, had I done an apprenticeship instead of a university degree, I doubt my output would be much different; it's just that it really didn't seem to work in our case.
- arethuza 8y agoI wasn't directly involved in the selection - but I know the team doing it were pretty selective. The folks involved also did a lot of training over a year or so.