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Do you only hire from CS programs? I’ve worked with a wide variety of developers, probably only 50% of which had CS degrees, and they weren’t any better than an
by nicoburns 5y ago
Do you only hire from CS programs? I’ve worked with a wide variety of developers, probably only 50% of which had CS degrees, and they weren’t any better than anyone else.
- criddell 5y agoThe best software developer I’ve ever worked with was a graduate from an architecture program. A close second was a guy who was a middle school teacher before turning to software. I’ve also worked with some really excellent CS people. A lot of software development, even at very high levels, has very little too do with what they teach in Comp Sci. I still look for developers from computer science programs mostly because that’s an easy place to find people who really love creating software and systems.
- nicoburns 5y ago> lot of software development, even at very high levels, has very little too do with what they teach in Comp Sci. Indeed, I studied Maths & Philosophy and I always tell people that the Philosophy was a lot more useful to my career as a software developer than the Maths. (Analytic) Philosophy involves a lot of probing people's assumptions until you get to a clear idea of what they truly believe. Which is rather similar to the process of teasing clear requirements out of stakeholders.