Re: ANNOUNCE: Vacant Job Positions

Getting a degree from college is far more than just taking and passing classes. If you really apply yourself, you learn how to learn. What they teach in school is often not very useful in the "real" world in a direct sense but it does prepare you in how to analyze new problems, apply the skills you've mastered previously, and derive new techniques that fill in the gaps that your education or prior experience didn't cover.

Being an EE with 18 years of experience who does software design, I don't know what the curriculum is these days but I would hope that it covers more than just coding. Coding is actually a small part of the total software development cycle. Being good at banging out code doesn't make you successful developer if the code you write is not testable or nor reliable nor understandable and maintainable by either yourself or, more likely, by those who follow you.

I interview candidates for fulltime software positions at my company and I would give higher consideration to someone who has completed college but may not have the same level of coding skills as someone who never attended or didn't complete their degree. Yes, there are exceptions but I think that there are far fewer of them than one might believe. So far, I haven't encountered any.

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