Starting now, it's probably more necessary than it was 10, 15, 20 years
ago. In my entire time in IT, I can count all the people I've ever meet
that were born and raised in the U.S.* and with an IT degree on one
hand. I've meet plenty with all sorts of other degrees: geology,
philosophy, medical, you name it. In nearly 20 years I've only ever had
one company tell me that a degree was an absolute requirement for
working there. That was this year, so things may be changing.
I don't have any experience with it, but I'd imagine that if you're
looking to do something like actually design new hardware, you'd have to
have a degree unless you're going to go entrepreneurial.
* If you're looking to work on an H1B or similar, I suspect a degree is
a hard requirement.
On 11/12/2015 7:51 AM, Mitt Green wrote:
Hi everyone,
This is offtopic. I'm interested in whether college or university degree
is necessary to work in IT industry (of any kind: admin, embedded systems
developer, driver developer, mobile systems, consulting, hardware etc).
Questions:
1) Are there many people without degrees in the industry?
2) Which companies (just for examples) don't require it?
3) Are there any hobbyists around here, that earn some money from
coding?
From what I've heard, universities here teach something that is
obsolete and is not used anymore, or simply don't teach what we do
here (Unix, administration, hardware...).
Thanks for any kind of information,
Mitt
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