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This article is about learning, but the context seems to be about landing a job. Software jobs are all about who you know. People who know people get waved past
by d-d 7y ago
This article is about learning, but the context seems to be about landing a job. Software jobs are all about who you know. People who know people get waved past all the red tape. The truer purpose of education is relationships not knowledge. This is why there are high school dropout senior engineers ordering burgers from CS grads. If you're in it for money, you're less likely to build relationships. This is why I'm genuinely concerned for all these people stampeding towards CS. It's gonna be ugly in 5-10 years IMO.
- wmp56 7y agoFor a new hire, it's more about standing out of average: github projects and all that. At that level connections are same CS grads that can't help much with landing a job. 10 years down the road it's more about connections with people from past gigs. Being a former roommate with someone in college is of no little help: unless that connection has been maintained, it's gone, and even if it's been maintained, that reference is of no help unless you worked together.