quote: | Originally posted by MikeRotunda
every job is like that
doesnt take away from the value of education
more money for me |
Actually in programming it does. The monetary value is not worth the paper when a major in CSE is not going to get you any more knowledge than you had when you started. The education is not education at that point, its just a unneeded and expensive hoop to jump through.
CSE courses are designed in the 4 year setting to be taught to people who basically have no programming experience. Those people are few and far between going into those courses, as again, most programmers start programming at a very young age. They will have 6-8 years of self-education (which usually means reading thick ass books on their own) before they even apply to school.
Any decent firm is going to not have some pencil pushing HR dickwad who has no programming experience looking just for a degree. They will have technical managers do the interviews and resume processing because they know that some of the best people in the industry have the least formal education.
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