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pepijndevos on April 2, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Poll: Do you have a CS degree?

"most of them are useless" Would you care to elaborate what constitutes useful? In my little bubble, there are a lot of useful people without degrees.

lwat on April 2, 2012 [–]

Useless as software engineers. We've had 'programmers' that could not FizzBuzz, ones that didn't know the difference between 0 and NULL, ones that could not read an E-R diagram, and so on. So these days when we hire a software engineer you don't get to round 2 if there's no degree on your resume.

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