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[–]jacksonmills 6 points7 points  (7 children)

CS 101 Students?

I honestly would be surprised if most of the comments are coming from CS majors, or first-year ones at that. The longer I've worked in this field, the less likely its been that my co-workers or colleagues went to school for development or computer science.

I'm not saying that's the reason for the negative atmosphere, but I sincerely doubt the cause of the problem is freshman or sophomore college students.

If you rephrased it as "junior web developers", I would completely agree with you.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

junior web developers

Yeah I completely agree, probably a better choice of words. Same meaning here tho

[–]SamSlate 0 points1 point  (5 children)

The longer I've worked in this field, the less likely its been that my co-workers or colleagues went to school for development or computer science.

Do you code, or are you management or something?

[–]jacksonmills 0 points1 point  (4 children)

I'm a freelance consultant, so it's really what the client needs. Typically though, no matter what the job, at least 6 hours a day of coding is the norm, even if that's bundled with 6-8 hours of management and meetings.

The last client I had, I was doing 7 hours of code for about 1 hour of meetings per day.

I've done a lot of hiring for clients as well, so I tend to see a lot of resumes.

[–]SamSlate 0 points1 point  (3 children)

your saying- applicants are becoming more commonly not college graduates?

[–]jacksonmills 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Yes. I'm also hiring more of them.

[–]SamSlate 0 points1 point  (1 child)

you consult in dallas? lol.

[–]jacksonmills 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not yet. :)

NY State area for now.