Completing a computer science degree on Coursera
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Completing a computer science degree on Coursera
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#2Congrats on sticking with the impulsive decision and congrats with your first class!
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#3How do employers perceive such diploma? I would try to find out before spending time or money. Did you?
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#4Congrats on sticking with the impulsive decision and congrats with your first class!
Thank you!
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#5How do employers perceive such diploma? I would try to find out before spending time or money. Did you?
So… obligatory not in HR and also not a manager. But I’ve helped hire a couple engineers over the last 5ish years. Seems that HR at my companies filter for college degrees, and basically require 2 - 4 more years of experience (sans degree) or pedigree at their last couple companies. Maybe this depends more on the size of the company, but, for Kinda sucks that the first barrier to interviewing at most companies is HR, and they generally are the least qualified or motivated to properly assess candidates. I don’t fully blame them, as there are just too many resumes and interviews to go through for the limited time we have in a work day, but great candidates can come from any background and demographic.
Edit: Sample size of 1 here, so take with an appropriately sized (whale?, school bus?) grain of salt.
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#6Pure computer science, you can teach it on a chalk board, without ever touching an electronic device.
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#7How do employers perceive such diploma? I would try to find out before spending time or money. Did you?
I always saw motivated people taking the "road less travelled" as a HUGE green flag.
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#8How do employers perceive such diploma? I would try to find out before spending time or money. Did you?
So… obligatory not in HR and also not a manager. But I’ve helped hire a couple engineers over the last 5ish years. Seems that HR at my companies filter for college degrees, and basically require 2 - 4 more years of experience (sans degree) or pedigree at their last couple companies. Maybe this depends more on the size of the company, but, for Kinda sucks that the first barrier to interviewing at most companies is HR,…
Lying seems to be the only way to get a job these days
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#9How do employers perceive such diploma? I would try to find out before spending time or money. Did you?
I always saw motivated people taking the "road less travelled" as a HUGE green flag.
There's a stark difference between self motivated curious people and certification collectors even though on the surface they can look very similar.
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#10I got a Bachelor, Master, and PhD in Computer Science, with a total of 11 years of education. It's the biggest waste of time of my entire life.
As I progress in my professional career I'm more convinced that pretty much everything in tech is on-the-job learning, and universities are little more than a social club. Nowadays you can learn everything you do at university and far more online and for free.
Universities (elite ones particularly) still give you credentials that have some value getting a job. However I wonder for how long that will still be true. Learning by doing and building a portfolio sounds like a better way of getting in the industry today than getting a multi-year degree with nothing or little to show for it.
Nowadays I wouldn't recommend anyone to get a tech degree in a university unless it's a world class one. And even then, I would focus on networking and finding like-minded people rather than necessarily getting good grades.