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I've hired dozens of programmers and never once looked at what college they went to or if they went to college (or where they live, just what time zone they're
by everdev 7y ago
I've hired dozens of programmers and never once looked at what college they went to or if they went to college (or where they live, just what time zone they're in).
In web/app coding, all that matters is what you've done in the last 1-4 years. Anything beyond that is too dated to be relevant.
It's been a highly successful recruiting practice. There are so many brilliant self taught developers that would get overlooked if I only looked at college graduates.
- scarface74 7y agoBut how can you possibly be a good developer if you don’t know how to invert a binary tree?
- everdev 7y agoOr know how to quick sort in C?
- scarface74 7y agoWell that’s different since qsort() is part of the standard library.... Yes, for the pedantic I know whether qsort() actually implements the quicksort algorithm is implementation defined.
- everdev 7y agoLol, didn't know that. We had to write it ourselves in high school.