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Obviously a PhD is not a substitute for actual programming skills. But what is so specific about your needs that the candidate absolutely must have a CS degree
by akhmatova 4y ago
Obviously a PhD is not a substitute for actual programming skills.
But what is so specific about your needs that the candidate absolutely must have a CS degree -- and for which it simply will not suffice, as is nearly universally standard throughout the industry, to have "equivalent experience"?
- bluGill 4y agoI didn't say I'm hiring CS degrees. I just said a non CS degree isn't anything. There are lots of great programmers with many different backgrounds. However if you don't have a CS degree you need to prove you can program. Even those with a CS degree need to prove they can program, but odds are a bit better they can.
- akhmatova 4y agoI just said a non CS degree isn't anything. A strange view of the world (even the world programming), to say the least.
- bluGill 4y agoSome PhDs are great programmers. Some read half of how to learn YYY language in 24 hours and think they are god's gift to programming. In general I find people without a CD degree don't get why clean code is important. Since I'm on a project with tens of millions of lines of code (big, but I'm well aware that other projects are much bigger) clean code is important.
- akhmatova 4y agoWith you basically, but I phrase it as: "Without a CS degree or equivalent experience."