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I wasn't unemployable as a graduate, I found a job after all. But I was near enough useless and started from the ground up. I've always felt my real education
by hereonout2 2y ago
I wasn't unemployable as a graduate, I found a job after all. But I was near enough useless and started from the ground up.
I've always felt my real education in software engineering started at work.
20 odd years later I lead a large engineering team and see the same with a lot of graduates we hire. There's a few exceptions but most are as clueless as I was at that age.
- InsideOutSanta 2y agoYeah, I graduated around 2000 and had to learn how to work on a professional software engineering team. That doesn't mean my education was worthless—quite the opposite. It's just that what you learn in a software engineering degree isn't "how to write code and do software development in a professional team in their specific programming language and libraries and frameworks and using their specific tooling and their office politics."
- lerp-io 2y agoEven professional software development as you know it may not stick around for very long. I believe knowledge and experience gained along the way can translate across different context and you can use that to pivot and adapt to the environment.
- __loam 2y agoThe knowledge I got in school is definitely a lot more durable than the experience. Basic knowledge is still what everything is built on.
- rcxdude 2y agoThat matches up with my general expectations of graduates. They should be smart, but are not expected to really know much.