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I'm confused by their conflation of STEM (in particular CS) grads and IT workers. For example they say, “For computer science graduates employed one year after
by parennoob 14y ago
I'm confused by their conflation of STEM (in particular CS) grads and IT workers.
For example they say, “For computer science graduates employed one year after graduation . . . about half of those who took a job outside of IT say they did so because the career prospects were better elsewhere, and roughly a third because they couldn’t find a job in IT,”
None of the people who work in the IT department at my company have CS degrees. They have, however, held various sysadmin and programming positions, and do a bloody good job running our IT. I'm not sure we'd hire a fresh-out-of-school CS grad for our IT jobs if they didn't have any experience doing sysadmin or equipment / facility maintenance stuff.
- svachalek 14y agoCompanies that aren't in the tech industry usually lump their programmers (for their web site, or internal process tools) into the IT dept. Still, the conflation of terms in this article makes it hard to understand what it's really saying; most interpretations I can make are just hard to believe.
- bennyg 14y agoYep. My official title is IT Technical Specialist 2 - but I'm an iOS Developer if we're playing with words that actually mean something when said together. Funny enough though, I don't have a CS degree, I have an Art degree. Though everyone I work with is either CS or ECE.