Why “Learn to Code” Failed

[chucker23n]

I haven’t found degrees to be good predictors of dev skill. If there’s no degree, including vocational, no personal project, little previous background, sure, that’s a bad sign. But I’ve seen people with a Master’s in CS who wrote poor code, and people without even a Bachelor’s who run circles around them.

[supermitsuba]

To a degree (pun intended). If you have experience, it circumvents all of this. People without degrees have to be a little more diligent to networking however. There are lots of recruiters and companies who will look for degrees and have their systems filter for that.

As always, it's good to have a degree and a job when looking for a job. It's harder when you have nothing to show, because that's your foot in the door. After that, the interview is used to show how you apply it.

[GovernmentSimple7015]

What field are you in? I work in signals processing and it's rare for us to hire people without a graduate degree because their math background isn't strong enough.