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In my opinion CS degree gets bonus when hiring because it weeds out people that are not interested. With 160 people in same year as me starting it ended up with
by ozim 7y ago
In my opinion CS degree gets bonus when hiring because it weeds out people that are not interested. With 160 people in same year as me starting it ended up with 90 people getting bachelors, and maybe 60 masters. Then out off all that graduated maybe 30 went into software dev, others went into testing and support roles, maybe even into other stuff not CS related.
If you are starting career, how are you going to convince someone that it is not passing fad for you, that after 6 months you would say "ok I am done, I am bored with it". There is no way to show people how much time you invested in your self study. It is not about what you know, it is about other people getting to know so they can hire you.
- rvz 7y ago> There is no way to show people how much time you invested in your self study. It is not about what you know, it is about other people getting to know so they can hire you. Your point still holds true in this industry when you get as much as 300+ candidates applying for 1 graduate job. As much as I hate it, unfortunately some companies would hire internal candidates than external ones even if they were highly qualified, because they are highly networked within the company. Having just a CS degree in 2019 is not enough to market youself as a better candidate. It is meerly seen as a minimum expectation from larger companies.