On Nov 4, 2010, at 9:45 AM, wooks . wrote:Unless you are headed for CS grad
school or are Google/Microsoft material (by ability or by being in a brand
name school) nobody really cares about your CS degree.
I think this is an overly narrow perspective.
NEU works with a lot of co-op employers (100s) and almost all of them care
about high quality programming. Indeed, they forced NEU to re-train MS students
when they enter because the typical NEU/MS co-op student wasn't as good as the
undergraduates we produce.
I am sure there are companies that don't care what kind of software they
produce but there is a dearth of good programmers as far as our co-op employers
are concerned.
-- Matthias
Everybody (including most companies, including me before I was exposed to the
Design Recipe and FP) thinks the software they produce is good.
Many companies are not enlightened enough to seek alliances with universities
that are producing well trained programmers.
I would absolutely agree that there is a dearth of good programmers etc but the
response of many employers to this problem is to widen their recruitment
outside (and often far far outside) of the discipline.
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