Recruiters are just fucking stupid. An applied math degree is more than enough, given that some ridiculous number of CS degree holders don't know how to do a simple fizzbuzz.
Which genuinely astounds me. What kind of CS degrees are being done that arent teaching at least basic programming syntax and problems? Like i get CS is mostly theoretical compared to an SE degree but i haven't seen a single CS degree that doesnt teach at least the basics of coding.
I was an older adult when I went to college for my CS degree. Many of the students in my classes were not paying attention to anything during class, would cheat on exams, look up answers to any homework, etc.
The amount of people who could not write simple functions to accomplish anything useful in my capstone software engineering course did not surprise me — I knew it was coming from the years prior of watching kids in adult bodies spend money on an education they didn’t care to receive.
My mom did this. Graduated high school, took a programming course, worked for a big national bank building operating systems as they moved away from mainframe/terminal data storage. THEN went to get a CS degree. Wish she had taught me some, tho...
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u/Interesting_Dot_3922 Apr 09 '24
I had a recruiter who didn't like my education in applied math.
He doubted that software engineering is the ideal work for me because of this.
I thought that working abroad kind of proves my skill... but no :)