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> Lots of programming jobs hire based on experience and knowledge, not formal education. I hear a lot of people say this here, but that's not true for most job
by clicks 14y ago
> Lots of programming jobs hire based on experience and knowledge, not formal education.
I hear a lot of people say this here, but that's not true for most jobs in the industry. For big companies good luck even getting past the HR without a degree.
- dragonwriter 14y ago> I hear a lot of people say this here, but that's not true for most jobs in the industry. For big companies good luck even getting past the HR without a degree. Most of the people I know who do hiring, including some in Fortune 100 companies, very frequently identify through networking, not HR. Yeah, if the company hasn't heard of you until you hit the HR front door filtering process, your going to have trouble without a degree, but if you are coming in that way, you are already behind the curve.
- eli_gottlieb 14y agoNot everyone has connections!
- prawn 14y agoMake connections through open source contributions, web discussions, etc.
- dragonwriter 14y ago> Not everyone has connections! Not everyone has the specific skills needed to do the job, either: to be maximally employable, those are both things that you would do well to develop (I'm much better at the skill side than the connections side myself, but that doesn't stop me from recognizing the fact that connections matter a lot.)
- kragen 14y agoI've worked programming jobs at big companies without a degree, and gotten offers from others that I didn't take.
- btilly 14y agoIs Google big enough for you? Yes, there was pressure to have a degree. But I knew several when I was there whose highest degree was high school.