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The hit rate in the article is almost 1/4. That's a lot better than high school sports. The fallback if you don't succeed is called "programmer". And no, prog
by btilly 3y ago
The hit rate in the article is almost 1/4. That's a lot better than high school sports.
The fallback if you don't succeed is called "programmer". And no, programmers don't need college degrees if they have real world experience. I've known a lot of very successful programmers with no college degree at all.
- FrustratedMonky 3y agoNot if the denominator is all Computer Science students who may think of dropping out of school when seeing these success stories. And The days of hacking something together and getting a job are kind of dwindling if not gone. The days of self learning, and showing skill isn't really as prevalent anymore. Sure, it was like that during 90-2000's. But these days, not so much.
- btilly 3y agoIf what you said was true, coding bootcamps would require you to have a college degree. They don't require it. And still place people without degrees at all sorts of companies. Maybe you are somewhere that it is required. But in general, it really is not.
- FrustratedMonky 3y agoYou wouldn't need a degree for the boot camp, you are saying a boot camp is a replacement for a degree. That these two options are equal for a company hiring. Aren't a lot of coding boot-camps going bankrupt and closing, and having various scandals for over-inflating their placement numbers? Don't get me wrong, I really love the idea of picking up a book, teaching myself, and going and getting a job. It's just that this is a quickly fading option.