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- From: kylep@softarch.com (Kyle Pauley)
- Reply-To: kylep@softarch.com
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Distribution: world
- Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Vacant Job Positions
- Date: 12 Feb 1996 09:49:26 GMT
- Message-ID: <660799486.165312547@softarch.com>
- Organization: Software Architects, Inc.
-
- > pablo@ppp-mew.corp.sgi.com (Pablo Sanchez) wrote:
- > >
- >
- >
- > One real good reason is competition. If two person are applying for
- > the same job and are equal in experience and quality, the one with
- > the degree will win. That's the world we're competing in...DEAL
- > WITH IT!
-
- Wrong!
-
- We just went through a hiring process looking for some new engineers at my
- company and setting in the lunch room talking to the managers who interviewed
- the canidates revealed some interesting tidbits. Out of several candidates
- the one that we wanted most didn't have a degree and we couldn't afford him.
- One had a Masters and we didn't hire him because he didn't have a sense of
- humor (I'm not kidding) Two didn't get chosen because they didn't seem to
- fit in or had some other problem like not being able to answer simple
- questions without a long preamble ( I think they learn to do this in
- college). We went for someone who did have a degree but it looked like it
- hadn't damaged him too much.
-
- Most of this talk of not being able to get a job without a degree seems to be
- a defensive reaction rather than a fact. Just sitting through four years of
- classes doesn't make you a programmer it makes you an administrator. That's
- the world you are competing in. You are not going to be able to bluff your
- way through an interview with programmers with just a degree. Granted if you
- know your stuff AND have a degree you have a good chance of getting hired.
- Most of the rest of the time you either won't get hired or will because they
- can't afford somebody better.
-