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Entirely temporary. I was rejected by google from 2006-2012 because I didn’t have a degree. Suddenly they need more programmers and they drop that requirement
by o-__-o 7y ago
Entirely temporary. I was rejected by google from 2006-2012 because I didn’t have a degree. Suddenly they need more programmers and they drop that requirement. Never mind I have formal CS training, they required a piece of paper.
I would not be surprised during the next recession that employers fall back to arbitrary demands like degrees or obscene amounts of experience.
- articwombat 7y agoWhat is “formal CS training”, if not a degree?
- Buge 7y agoPossibly attending but not graduating (Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg come to mind).
- o-__-o 7y agoI spent time going to college but never graduated. I finished all the required CS courses and a bunch of optional ones plus a few grad level CS courses then left to migrate a Fortune 500 bank off of COBOL. My resume after that was a who’s who of fortune 500s and deeply technical positions but google said no degree, no job. I believe that was the founders attitude towards hiring which has since changed
- Reedx 7y agoProbably some. But competent employers will never fall back to degrees. They will always focus on... competence.
- amznthrowaway5 7y agoNot always true. For example, the AI/ML craze brought a lot of academics into industry and also brought a lot of their politics. For an AI/ML job at most places, prepare to be judged based on having the right credentials (good degree, school and publications) and looked down upon as scum if you don't have right ones.
- o-__-o 7y agoOr again relevant experience. No one is gonna say no to a person coming out of e.g. Netflix’s search dept or Facebook or has decades of big data experience, regardless of their education.