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there were less than 5 girls on my computer science class, so unless woman are claim that they should have the job without education. I can totally see the reason why there is a gender diversity in IT?
Why is a computer science background necessary for an IT career? I know many, many IT professionals who did not study CS in college.
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there were less than 5 girls on my computer science class, so unless woman are claim that they should have the job without education. I can totally see the reason why there is a gender diversity in IT?
Why is a computer science background necessary for an IT career? I know many, many IT professionals who did not study CS in college.
Interesting answers on lack of gender diversity in IT: Most of the men believe the reason is that there just aren't that many women entering the field, while almost all the women blame bias at various stages of education, hiring and promotion. Someone has a cognitive dissonance.
tl;dr because the presentation is super long. I just picked data which I find interesting and not obvious, there's much more information which I don't cover. Data is in chronological order and often aggregated to less numbers. 700 founders inside and outside of FirstRound were surveyed. - 7 of 10 say bitcoin is overhyped - cofounder relationship: 5% fired their cofounder, 5% are strained, 40% collegial, 28% best frie…
I think this is a very interesting question to ask when interviewing at a startup: "If you're not successful, why do you think that will be?" And also "what leads the culture" (engineering, sales, design etc).
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Why is a computer science background necessary for an IT career? I know many, many IT professionals who did not study CS in college.
Maybe it is not strictly necessary but someone with a CS degree is obviously going to be the preferred hire.
Secondly, if you hear "startup" and think "developers" then you're ignoring at least 50% of the work necessary to make the business a success, all of which can (and often should) be done by someone without a CS degree. There's a lot more to tech than writing code.
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You already get healthcare with US startups.. so that isn't a "benefit" of Europe. "Proper urban planning?" Hah. In Paris you pay San Franscico housing prices or you spend over an hour on strike-prone un-air conditioned buses or trains. As far as retirement plans, pay me more and I'll invest it myself. If I make $150k per year, that's almost triple a French salary -- plenty of extra money to start my own damned retir…
Would it be fair to say that your personal valuation of the Provençal weather, the wine and the laid back feel of living in the countryside is greater than the salary difference of working in a high-paying US company?
Based on this, apparently not.
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Maybe it is not strictly necessary but someone with a CS degree is obviously going to be the preferred hire.
Firstly, that isn't true. Huge numbers of people learn to write code as part of a degree that isn't CS - for example, if you want someone to develop a GIS startup you'd be better off with a geography graduate who can write decent code than a CS graduate who probably doesn't have experience of GIS. Secondly, if you hear "startup" and think "developers" then you're ignoring at least 50% of the work necessary to make th…