Comment by 908B64B197
3 years ago
> industry is routinely bashing on CS degrees because they don't turn people into framework X-ready candidates.
To me that's noise and not much else.
Something I don't think a lot of folks realize is that there's two parallel industries (and pipelines to jobs in the industry). They almost never overlap.
One in which recruiting is largely done by non-technical folks who match keywords of frameworks, and where rote and learning whatever library is seen as the objective (bootcamps come to mind).
The other one where CS fundamentals are seen as the priority, and where hiring focusses on finding people who posses the skill of acquiring new knowledge.
You can guess in which one Google and FAANG or whatever the acronym is now and Stanford/MIT exists.
I work at a non-Google FAANG - from what I've seen in my org, "CS fundamentals" (which I assume is some proxy statement of sorts for leetcode-style interviews with emphasis on data structure/algo questions & knowledge) isn't as important for the work or to get hired for us. Our view is hard technical skills can be taught/picked up on the jobs, but behavioral aspects are not so easy to develop.
We routinely have & hire interns from top programs and many lesser known ones, or even non-CS degree holders.
> can guess in which one Google and FAANG or whatever the acronym is now
Small aside. It describes Google and Facebook and the others several years ago. Speaking anecdotally, the impressive people at those firms are fewer and farther in between.