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"- Credentials, including graduate degrees, are no guarantee that someone is a good engineer" Too true, I've started to recruit non-CS people and teaching them
by SQueeeeeL 7y ago
"- Credentials, including graduate degrees, are no guarantee that someone is a good engineer"
Too true, I've started to recruit non-CS people and teaching them how to code. The state of CS education in the US is insanely inconsistent. But I'm lucky, I have lots of time to train people; most companies can't handle months of startup time.
- somatic 7y agoWant to hire me? I’m a reasonably competent programmer already, pretty good designer. Most recently I wanted to familiarize myself with the basics of C++ so I wrote my own big integer library.