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Not only inflation but with debt. You can do extremely well with just a Bachelor’s in CS. Professions like nursing, medicine, law, even business have had their
by bobthepanda 4y ago
Not only inflation but with debt.
You can do extremely well with just a Bachelor’s in CS. Professions like nursing, medicine, law, even business have had their earning potential sapped by larger and larger costs of education. And degrees past Bachelor’s are less well supported by financial aid schemes.
- 33955985 4y agoIf there is one “tech disruption” I hope actually sticks is the death of credentialism and the rise of proof of ability by doing. I have only a bachelor’s in a liberal art(!) and working in tech has opened up so many doors for me, in teams where nobody cared where I went to school and my lack of a master’s was met with curious shrugs.
- bobthepanda 4y agowell, this has upsides and downsides. proof of doing is in large part responsible for how grueling and grinding tech interviews are. you don't hire nurses by asking them to demonstrate operating on a cat. and to some degree the grueling and grinding is there because the degree doesn't indicate anything at all, and desirable companies ending up having to process a lot of underqualified applicants.
- 33955985 4y agoAll upsides for real people and all downsides for multi-billion-dollar companies, it would seem. There is never going to be a university degree program that precisely matches what a company needs. So why bother?
- bobthepanda 4y agoAt least one page complaining about tech interviews hits the front page of HN a week. That’s an upside?