[nfbcs] Research

[David Andrews]

Greg, I have no doubt that what you say is true. On the other hand, 
most people who hire entry-level people are going to consider 
blindness a strike against a person. Not having a CS degree is 
another, and this isn't baseball -- two strikes and you are out.

We always need that little extra edge to end up in the same 
place.  You can talk about overcoming countless accessibility 
obstacles to get your degree. This is a plus.

Dave

At 01:49 PM 2/24/2017, you 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.