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I can't offer any specific advice about the place but I can say - go for it. Apart from the personal satisfaction of being a mathematician you go straight to t
by excuse-me 14y ago
I can't offer any specific advice about the place but I can say - go for it.
Apart from the personal satisfaction of being a mathematician you go straight to the top of my interview list. Anyone with the dedication and commitment to do a maths degree on their own is the sort of person I want to talk to
My (admittedly personal and biased) guide is maths/physics and pref. advanced degrees first.
Followed by CS degrees from really top notch schools and then I ask why, if they are so smart they didn't do maths/physics at MIT? Acceptable answer is a complete overarching love of computer science.
Followed by no formal qualification devs - with some evidence that they have read/learned more than simply the SDK they were using.
And last on the list are CS grads from some no-name, anyone can get in, CS school. People who did a CS degree because their school counselor said it would get them a well paid job.
- derefr 14y agoAnd here I'm a no-formal-qualification dev with many years of experience, now considering getting a CS degree from a no-name anyone-can-get-in school just because it's a prerequisite to being allowed into the US on an H1B or TN visa (because, as HN discussed yesterday[1], Canada has no tech scene.) You'd skip over me, no? [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4275634 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4275634
- excuse-me 14y agoThere are no absolute statements. I was just highlighting that while many bad jobs insist on a CS degree, many good ones treat a CS degree with some suspicion. See also http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchools.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchool...
- slackerIII 14y agoNo love for engineering grads?
- excuse-me 14y agowell perhaps, and even chemists ;-)