[nfbcs] Research

[David Tseng]

Yup; that's really odd :). It is not unheard of, but amongst all of the
software engineers I know, most have CS degrees and of those, most have
graduate degrees.
If you are in testing, program/project management, and any number of other
functions, CS is probably overkill, but still helpful.


On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 11:49 AM, Greg Kearney via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
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.
>
> Greg
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