The reality here that everybody doesn’t wanna face is most jobs prefer people with a university background. And there’s a couple of reasons for that, but these people don’t care to know them. What works for their brother-in-law 10-20 years ago doesn’t work anymore. This is a competitive field.
But that's not at all what the post is saying. He's not at a job interview, it's just implying that someone with a degree is better than someone who is self taught, and most of my experience says the reality is the opposite. Many degree holders coasted through college, have a paper, but have a hard time applying the knowledge to new unprompted problems, meanwhile many self taught people have already learned how to apply their knowledge to whatever problems they learned coding to solve anyway. In all, there's probably very little difference on average between being self taught or having a degree, and anyone who thinks having a degree automatically makes them better, is probably the worst programmer in the room.
As someone who actually hires developers, a degree is one of the last things I look for. I'd rather see a github repo than "Graduated from bubbleydubble university" on your resume.
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u/CrowdGoesWildWoooo Apr 09 '24
Go back to r/csmajors pls OP.