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Whose fault is it that they went to college and expected a career to fall into their laps upon graduation? This isn't 20 years ago when most people were still
by MisterBastahrd 7y ago
Whose fault is it that they went to college and expected a career to fall into their laps upon graduation?
This isn't 20 years ago when most people were still offline. There's plenty of evidence out there that supports the idea that employers want strong data structure skills, portfolios, knowledge of git, etc. when looking for candidates. If a student isn't putting in the time on personal projects and they haven't sought out internships to prove their worth, then that's their fault.
There are FAR more html / css / javascript / php / wordpress stack jobs out there than there are candidates who can fill those roles (I know this from experience because I actively avoided them during my most recent job search), so all a dummy with a degree has to do is play around with those for a month or two using existing themes and they'll be employable.
- scarface74 7y agoHow exactly are students suppose to know what they don’t know? If colleges can’t teach them that, what’s the purpose?
- MisterBastahrd 7y agoI didn't realize that people live in bubbles and are completely unaware of the outside world. Colleges are there to create educated people in specific fields of study. If a student wants to learn more about the outside world, there are more than enough on-campus resources available that they are able to take advantage of, and students are certainly informed from the start regarding how they should acquire that information. Any student handbook would have plenty of information about what's available. Just because students are lazy and not motivated to learn beyond what gets them a letter grade doesn't mean that the information isn't available to them.
- scarface74 7y agoIf I’m spending $10s of thousands of dollars to get a degree in computer science - that is my world and I want a positive ROI for it.
- MisterBastahrd 7y agoIf you aren't smart enough to ensure that you're going to get paid when you have a computer science degree, then it isn't the university's fault.
- scarface74 7y agoSo at 22 years old how many people do you think “are smart enough” to know what the industry requires?
- MisterBastahrd 7y agoAt 22 years old I expect people with the resources and the mental faculties to attend a university to do the bare minimum and have no sympathy for those who refuse to do so. I would never hire someone who didn't have the intelligence or initiative to look up basic information and apply it, regardless of whether they lucked into a degree. It isn't the professor's job to waste valuable education time spoon feeding you. If you can't read the document the professor provides to you and figure it out, then you're investing in a lost cause. THAT is not the university's fault, it's yours.