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Yeah except that for 99.9999% of software engineering jobs, that knowledge is irrelevant. Also, to be a good engineer, you need to have MUCH more than just some
by tempsolution 7y ago
Yeah except that for 99.9999% of software engineering jobs, that knowledge is irrelevant. Also, to be a good engineer, you need to have MUCH more than just some math and raw computer science knowledge. I would go as far as saying that all scientific tasks are mostly carried out by research scientists these days anyway. The skills you need at companies like Google or Amazon, as a regular engineer, have VERY little to do with what you learned at University, which is why we hire even PhDs as junior engineers, and they usually are. They know a lot of stuff that doesn't matter (like how to color a graph), sure, but they also don't know a lot of stuff that matters (how to build production quality software, without shooting yourself into the foot at every turn).
- twblalock 7y agoI really wish university CS programs would have a course on how to use source control (probably Git), and CI (probably Jenkins). I'm sure some programs teach this stuff already. But I've hired people with graduate degrees in CS from well-known schools who didn't even use source control for their group projects in grad school -- they just emailed the source files to each other.
- musicale 7y agoWhat a strange and puzzling response! 0. You seem to have misunderstood my electrical engineering example. 1. Why would an MSEE not qualify you to be hired as a junior electrical engineer? 2. Why would a PhD in the appropriate area not qualify you to be hired as a junior research scientist?