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Over on the other side of the iron curtain “engineer” was/is a title that is earned formally in college. Being an engineer in this culture means something more
by scyzoryk_xyz 4y ago
Over on the other side of the iron curtain “engineer” was/is a title that is earned formally in college. Being an engineer in this culture means something more than a job title.
I can see though how this would be an issue - in my experience there is a significant difference in quality between developers who just learned how to program on their own, and the developers who hold that engineering degree.
- Thetawaves 4y agoThe autodidacts produce far better code in my experience.
- scyzoryk_xyz 4y agoAs a non-engineer I will take this as encouragement. From what I've seen around me, the ones holding the engineering titles simply are more methodical in how they search for a pattern or key to how something works. They will have a better vocabulary to explain themselves too. But maybe they aren't as good in thinking outside the box? Kind of like how someone who has completed a formal philosophical education will usually be better figuring out the ins and outs of a particular text but not necessarily will have what it takes to come up with their own? Not sure - I'm a humanities kind of guy who works with engineers.
- 908B64B197 4y agoNot to discourage you, but I've also observed the same pattern of autodidacts being better than traditional engineers... at least for those who stay in tech. I've seen a lot of self-taught developers or bootcamp grads switch industry or try to move to "tech-adjacent" roles. Making it as an individual contributor is, in my experience, pretty rare.