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How do you feel about the other types of engineering. Do they "require the elitism of higher ed?"
by HeyLaughingBoy 4y ago
How do you feel about the other types of engineering. Do they "require the elitism of higher ed?"
- solardev 4y agoI don't know enough about other types of engineering to comment on that? Programming can be engineering but isn't always. Web dev for example, especially frontend, mostly seems like a mountain of hacks... :shrug: In this instance, I think skills-based certifications & testing would be far more accurate, useful, and fair than requiring a college degree. At my current workplace, some of the software "engineers" there get paid less than me, even though they're better programmers, just because I have a 4-year college degree (in a completely unrelated field). It's a stupid requirement. I think some of the old-guard companies still equate "college" with "intellectual capacity & ability to follow instructions for four years". The former is better measured in other ways now and the latter isn't really a key trait of good programmers, unless you're a code mill hiring silent code monkeys.