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- From: bandy@netnews.jhuapl.edu (Mike Bandy)
- Subject: Re: Any hope for me..?
- Message-ID: <C0Hty1.DvH@netnews.jhuapl.edu>
- Organization: JHU/Applied Physics Laboratory
- References: <C0CC1w.2F5@netnews.jhuapl.edu> <726355710snz@panache.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:01:13 GMT
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- raph@panache.demon.co.uk (Raphael mankin) writes:
-
- >When I employ programmers I prefer those with a degree in English or History
- >or Physics, or anything except CS. They tend to have more rounded knowledge
- >and don't think that they know it all.
-
- >My experience of CS graduates is that, by and large, they have read nothing
- >and know nothing that was not in their degree course.
-
- I've had the (mis)fortune to work with a lot of EEs who were thrown
- into programming without any college computer coursework. Their attitudes
- are often that they, because they have 'engineering' in their degree, are
- better than the computer science types at their tasks. In reality, they
- know little of the basics (data structures, networking, optimization
- issues, etc). Whereas I'm sure that the history major has a more well read
- background, he does not have the basic requirements for the job.
-
- Why is it that they'll let anyone program, but let a non-EE major (for
- example) apply for an EE job, and he's eliminated from consideration
- immediately?
-
- --
-
- Mike Bandy
- bandy@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu
- Johns Hopkins University / Applied Physics Lab
-