Glad to see this being reflected in hiring nowadays, especially considering how damn unaffordable college is now.
There’s a fuck ton of people out there, especially in tech fields, who know a ton about something, usually because they have a bunch of personal experience messing with it, sometimes from a young age, (think: people who learn to program as kids because of Minecraft mods and now they’re highly proficient, people who are very skilled at troubleshooting tech because they were the go-to tech person for their family and friends, etc) who don’t necessarily have a degree, but might know a lot about a topic that could be useful in a given job.
If I wanted to hire a programmer, I’m gonna pick the person with years and years of experience starting when they were a child with a large portfolio of solid prior works over someone who just graduated college with a degree and has a base level knowledge of programming, because at that point, skills matter more than the degree itself.
Glad to see this being reflected in hiring nowadays, especially considering how damn unaffordable college is now.
There’s a fuck ton of people out there, especially in tech fields, who know a ton about something, usually because they have a bunch of personal experience messing with it, sometimes from a young age, (think: people who learn to program as kids because of Minecraft mods and now they’re highly proficient, people who are very skilled at troubleshooting tech because they were the go-to tech person for their family and friends, etc) who don’t necessarily have a degree, but might know a lot about a topic that could be useful in a given job.
If I wanted to hire a programmer, I’m gonna pick the person with years and years of experience starting when they were a child with a large portfolio of solid prior works over someone who just graduated college with a degree and has a base level knowledge of programming, because at that point, skills matter more than the degree itself.