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Most testers at the companies I’ve been at have had dormant CS degrees. They don’t bother keeping their CS skills up because there’s no chance for them to be pr
by jimbob45 5y ago
Most testers at the companies I’ve been at have had dormant CS degrees. They don’t bother keeping their CS skills up because there’s no chance for them to be promoted.
Nevertheless, they often know the product extremely well and work hard. If there was a known pipeline for them to follow, I’m certain they’d follow it.
- gkop 5y agoYour story doesn’t add up. Since a CS degree isn’t a pre-requisite to be a tester, and a CS degree goes a good way toward qualifying for a better paid software development job, why are your companies predominantly hiring testers with CS degrees? Why did the testers get the degrees just to let them go “dormant”?
- yoyonamite 5y agoI've never been involved in the game industry but it sounds believable to me. It's not a given that having a CS degree means a person can code, which is one of the reasons we code test in interviews. And I imagine the game industry requires higher coding ability. There are also people that want to be in the game industry no matter what. They would rather be a tester in games than a programmer outside it.