Degree in CS = waste of time?
Hello, I’ve got masters in CS and when I look back at my education I’ve started programming in HS and then spent 6 years in university studying and then landed a job at Microsoft. Many of my friends went the same path, essentially spending 5-8 years learning the required skills. What I have noticed recently is that this feels like a waste of time. I know a few ladies who had a degree in philosophy/linguistics/you name it, relocated here with husband working at amazon/Microsoft, went to some boot camp and then in a year became interns/FTEs at Amazon/Microsoft. This leaves me feeling that I’ve wasted my time in college given the fact that the end result is the same. What do you think?
I got a fucking PhD and kids born in the friggin 90s are my teammates/making same amount as I do.
6 years might be a bit long, but 3 years gives you a good baseline in a wide range of areas and more importantly you learn the social skills you need for work at college - that's more important
You learn more in college than how to code ... hopefully. :)
Most of the jobs in tech now are not particular creative nor require a lot of rigorous training in science. Most people wasted their talent and years of education doing some bullshit job everyday just to make that money.
Those boot camp shit made Microsoft bad
Pretty sure Microsoft was garbage before bootcamps became a thing
You probably had fun in college that's invaluable. partied, dated some cute girls...wait...you said CS major. Nevermind.
I have two kids in college and they both struggled with the decision. I got my degree 25 years ago and the only classes that really helped me were data structures, algorithms, statistics and some of my math classes. I already knew how to code, so the language classes were helpful but pretty boring. Over my career, I've only had a couple of jobs where I was doing "computer science". Most of the time I was doing "development". I would argue that most of the industry jobs (and perhaps most of the jobs at tech companies) are developer jobs, not computer science jobs. For those, a college degree isn't necessary. For the true computer science jobs, an advanced degree is usually very valuable if not required. Add tech writing to the list of classes I use pretty much daily.
what categorizes as computer science jobs? let alone the popular fields like ml, distributed systems, computer vision... how do one land a computer science job after doing years of dev jobs. Is that even possible?
no degree here make over 265k
God damn that is nice Good for you
Use your CS skills to build something useful for the company instead of following orders
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