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They have. There are companies in the UK that hire Oxbridge grads from the humanities with no tech experience whatsoever and train them. In the States, IBM has
by wyclif 6y ago
They have. There are companies in the UK that hire Oxbridge grads from the humanities with no tech experience whatsoever and train them. In the States, IBM has a similar apprenticeship programme that lasts for 1 year.
- throwawayboise 6y agoIn the mainframe era (e.g. up until the late 1990s maybe?) the big US consulting firms did the same thing. Andersen Consulting would hire smart history and english majors and teach them COBOL in 6 weeks and then dispatch them to a client site to work 60 hours/week. Granted their approaches, designs, and code were highly standardized, but the work got done.