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It's not a class issue, at least in some Countries. People I've met in the industry who don't have a comp/eng degree are typically more entrepreneurial ( and re
by wyck 5y ago
It's not a class issue, at least in some Countries. People I've met in the industry who don't have a comp/eng degree are typically more entrepreneurial ( and really smart), the education system was slow and boring and VERY outdated, they felt more effective not wasting time. I've worked with some really bad programmers who had masters degrees, after 2 decades I found that a degree really had no bearing on how effective someone was, it really came down to the actual person.
The problem as someone noted is HR doing the vetting, HR is in most cases filled with administrators, not problem solvers. I don't have anything good to say about HR.
- dzdt 5y agoThis is precisely because education is used as a filter so strongly. In order to make it into the industry without meeting the education requirement you must be truly impressive in other ways.
- ozim 5y agoPeople are nagging about HR but did those nagging people done any recruitment on their own? It is not that you hire 1 person and you have all the time in the world to get to know him/her. There is limited time, limited information and hundreds of people to be hired with hundreds of applicants. Hiring is not scaling well, because it is time bound, someone has to read that CV, someone has to make calls. You have to have like 30mins - 1hr chat with applicant. Only way to optimize time is to throw away CVs which is not optimal because you might throw away good candidates.