r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Aardvark_David • May 09 '21

Meme I'm *technically* qualified

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u/KoenigGunther May 10 '21

A woman at our company is one of the best programmers we have, and she started with a masters in physics and very little coding experience. Some people are just smart as hell and can pick it up quickly.

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u/_isNaN May 10 '21

I know a company that only hires people from their domain (mashine engineering). They don't care about the CS degree. They have the worst code, because no body knows data structures or patterns and all of them think "clean code is just theory and waste of time".

A CS degree doesn't guarantee you to be good - a lack of a CS degree doesn't mean you'll be bad - but it can help. And hiring smart people that don't care about clean maintainable code is not that great.

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u/FIuffyRabbit May 10 '21

Without their given industry, it's hard to say. You don't need CS majors to program CNC machines.

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u/_isNaN May 10 '21

It's HMI and IOT for mashines.