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Ugh. As someone with an EE degree, this is a nice allegory explaining why anyone with a CS degree coming in an job interview at my company has to demonstrate th
by smcdow 18y ago
Ugh. As someone with an EE degree, this is a nice allegory explaining why anyone with a CS degree coming in an job interview at my company has to demonstrate that they've overcome their deficiencies introduced by the CS program.
Usually a few questions involving pointers does the trick quite nicely.
In fact, I'm almost at the point where I'm rejecting applicants with CS degrees out of hand. I've had too many problems with architecture astronauts and the Java-solves-all-problems crowd.
- pmorici 18y agoI think that is an unfair characterization. People from reputable CS programs don't think this way. The problem is watered down schools giving CS a bad name.
- jordyhoyt 18y agoRight, any program that leaves its students thinking any one language solves all problems has failed to do its job.
- ajross 18y agoIsn't the real bug here that your hiring process is using the degree program as input in the first place? If a few questions about pointers are all it takes, then isn't that a better, cheaper indicator to use?
- eugenejen 18y agoI feel so sad, because I got a physics degree with EE as minor and an M.Sc. in computer science. I can work in x86 Asm, C, Java, PHP/Python/Perl/Ruby,Scheme and circuits depends on problems at hand. I guess I will be kicked out immediately by your filter. At the other hand. I feel so sad for you because the method that you are using is complete hindsight driven and you are correlating wrong causes and effects and misusing statistics. So please be careful of the happening of black swans.