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The pressure comes from everywhere: - Current employer: "Your salary is already good for someone without a bachelor's degree" - Current employer: "We're sorry
by miguelrochefort 6y ago
The pressure comes from everywhere:
- Current employer: "Your salary is already good for someone without a bachelor's degree"
- Current employer: "We're sorry but this promotion requires a bachelor's degree"
- Future employer: "We're sorry but we hired someone with a bachelor's degree for this job"
- Date: "You don't have a bachelor's degree?"
- Friends: "You're the only one without a bachelor's degree"
- Meetup: "What did you study in college?"
- Country: "We can't grant you a work visa without a bachelor's degree"
- Family: "You will have more opportunities with a bachelor's degree. We'll even pay for it." (offer expired)
- School: "Here's a scholarship" (offer expired)
- 80,000 hours: "You basically don't exist"
- Brain: "Maybe I'm not a superstar coder and job security is important"
Perhaps some of these are hypothetical, but they feel the same as if they had been concretized.
- M5x7wI3CmbEem10 6y agodoes similar pressure exist for a Master’s Degree? I’ve considered OMSCS for this reason.
- miguelrochefort 6y agoAsk me after I get my bachelor's degree. I suspect the pressure never really goes away.
- scarface74 6y agoI have a hard time believing that an employer ever cared about my degree in CS from 24 years ago from a no name state college when they decided to hire me. I’m sure my classes in COBOL,FORTRAN, and data structures in Pascal made any difference. Well, I did take a course in C and 16 bit x86 assembly.
- danielscrubs 6y agoIt was different times back then I'd argue, you could basically do 5+5 in a shell and get hired and shipped of to New York, but they where also forced to be constrained enough by the hardware to become clever after getting the job. 2018 Apple had 20 million registered developers and it has only increased since then. It's still very easy to become a developer right now (sambo found it to be the easiest path forward for example, from no experience at all), but the trend is quite scary. I have frankly no idea how it look when I turn 60.
- scarface74 6y agoI’m saying once you have experience even now, as the original poster has, most companies don’t care if you have experience. In the immortal words of every in r/cscareerquestions “learn leetCode and work for a FAANG”. No I didn’t do that to “get into a FAANG” but it is a much easier route than the one I took. If you want to go the enterprise route, if you have experience and do enough resume driven development and can answer basic techno trivia on a company’s chosen stack, it’s even easier.