[Ilugc] [OT] self taught programmers vs programmers with degrees
- From: aditya87@xxxxxxxxx (Aditya M)
- Date: Sat Jun 28 00:32:15 2008
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Parthan SR <parth.technofreak@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I have another question. A lot of people employed in Y domain are actually
from other domains, especially in India's IT companies we have more people
from Electronics, Electrical, Mechanical, Production, Civil put together
than Computer Science and IT. Most of us (as in out companies) end up hiring
a non-computer guy. How does this fit into the scenario? Myself coming from
Electrical and Electronics background and half of my colleagues too coming
from non-engineering background, I somehow feel non-CS or non-IT have been
more successful with IT jobs than their CS/IT peers.
IMHO:
I think the matter is more of interest rather than degrees. Among those who
are ambitious enough to want to go up the industry's value chain, the
degree-getters do so by doing more advanced degrees and proving their
ability through research and the self taught types, do so by taking up
challenging projects and learning things as they work. Since they are very
interested, they are also able to match their counterparts who have degrees.
I somehow tend to believe that those who do Ph.Ds and advance the field by
their research are better than the self taught ones (so they might be the
ones that I would employ if I were an employer :D), but this is more or less
subjective to me.
To answer your question about non-CS people doing relatively better, I think
it appears so because the average non-CS person is more interested in the
field than the average CS person, simply because the average CS person did
his/her degree because it was the "in" thing and not because they were
interested, and the average non-CS person learned everything required for
the job on their own (purely based on interest).
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Aditya Manthramurthy
B. Tech, Computer Science and Engineering
National Institute of Technology, Trichy
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