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As a hiring manager, my 'bias' against CS degrees, such as it exists, is that they don't actually tell me much of anything. Individuals have the capability to
by nupark2 15y ago
As a hiring manager, my 'bias' against CS degrees, such as it exists, is that they don't actually tell me much of anything.
Individuals have the capability to learn "compiler construction, functional programming the theory behind OO programming, prolog, how databases actually work", et al, independently of a degree, and yet, having that degree doesn't seem to actually guarantee that a potential hire understands any of the above.
- shaggyfrog 15y agoThen you shouldn't have a bias against CS degrees; you should simply see them as zero-information attributes. (Which, I think, is correct in a general sense: a resume should get a candidate to an interview, not earn the job on its own.)
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- ericbrunstad 15y agoWell, there's no way someone could get a degree in CS from Carnegie Mellon without learning quite a bit. For instance, they must take 15-213, which is an excellent systems programming course (students learn about virtual memory, UNIX programming, properties of integers that are useful for handling overflow, etc).
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