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This is true. I think society has gotten better at stretching out the shelter over time. It used to be undergrad + law school, then figure it out. Now it's u
by mathattack 13y ago
This is true. I think society has gotten better at stretching out the shelter over time. It used to be undergrad + law school, then figure it out. Now it's undergrad + banking/consulting/TFA + MBA + McKinsey, then figure it out.
Or for the lucky who were REALLY into programming, we knew early on that grades didn't matter as much so long as we learned enough to be valuable, since it's a field that's a relative meritocracy.
My experience, though, was the folks not handing in homework assignments were doing it out of laziness, not alternative studies.
- klibertp 13y ago> since it's a field that's a relative meritocracy I couldn't know this, I could just sincerely hope it's true, for all the years I played with programming, neglecting my duties as part of an educational system. I believed that I can become good at this thing called programming and I believed that it will be enough. Almost twenty years later I'm still astonished that my childish, naive belief was indeed true. That in this field it is much more important what we can do than who we are. Or maybe it was just luck and I'm deluding myself...
- mathattack 13y agoThere are politics in technology like every field, but... It's a field where things work, or things don't. And very hard problems get solved, or they don't. In Marketing, there's always a way to spin a result. In HR, the results can be too long in the future to hold someone accountable. Sales is perhaps the only other that comes close in being a meritocracy. There too the pedigree doesn't matter as much.