[nfbcs] Research

[John Heim]

Where did you get the idea that Silicon Valley is full of CS graduates 
working at Starbucks? I don't think that's true. Besides, your logic is 
kind of questionable. If it is hard for a CS graduate to get a job in 
Silicon Valley,  what chance do you think you'd have without a CS degree?

I'll admit that I can't prove a CS degree is worth the trouble and 
expense. But from my experiences of talking to IT managers, I don't 
think it's even close. Graduates with computer Science and similar 
degrees always rank among the highest starting salaries in surveys of 
employers. For example, in 2014, Computer Engineerins was #2, Software 
design #4, Computer programmer #5, and Computer science #7. I suspect 
the order is somewhat due to random variations. It doesn't make much 
sense for someone with a degree in programming to be worth more than 
someone with a degree in computer science, they are pretty much the same 
thing.   Here's a link to an article about it:
http://www.businessinsider.com/high-paying-college-majors-2014-11

If you google it, you'll find similar results for other years. But 
that's the on-line article that I found that was most accessible to my 
screen reader.



On 02/24/2017 01:49 PM, Greg Kearney via nfbcs wrote:
> This is going to sound odd but I work for a major technology company. I can not think of a single person in my group with a CS degree. More common in fact are fine arts degrees, like mine, history and humanities and music. We have some people including a supervisor who have no college degree at all, he came out of the military. We are all doing very technical work much of which involves coding which we all seemed to have learned as we needed it.
>
> So is having a CS degree a guarantee of a good job at a technology firm? Silicon Valley is filled up with CS graduates working at Starbucks so the answer is clearly no. IS not have such a degree going to keep you form a career at such a firm, well my experience the answer no as well.
>
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