Screw these over priced and overrated Universities. If you can make 200-300K as a programmer nowadays, working from home, without a Degree from an elite University (or without any degree perhaps), why waste the time and money?
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Great idea dz….How did that work out for you in tech as an engineer back in 2000 ish?
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That time could be better spent taking focused training courses.
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Great idea dz. Again, how did that work out for you while you were briefly in tech in 2000?
I went to an pedigree Ivy league, graduated close to top of my class with an EE degree. I didn’t take more than 2 computer science class in college, and almost flunked one of it wasn’t for last minute office hours (ok, the senior TA was hot and was a good reason for going to office hours, but it got me to study). My interest in software didnt really start until after I started working and all based on 2 UCSD Extension classes. Everything else was self taught, and whatever work I could pick up in software. And then being given an software engineering job opportunity at a bay area startup.
So, do you need a fancy CS degree from a fancy school in order to do reasonably well in software ? No. Does it help? Maybe. I think it helps to the extent that if you are reasonably capable of surviving 4 years of a tough engineering school at a decent university , there’s a high probability you have the work ethics and mental capabilities to learn whatever you want on your own, whatever that may be. Whether it’s software you never knew about or learning how to invest. People underestimate the importance of work ethics and determination that 4 years dedicated to a demanding degree and/or school is. Character and work ethics building more so than the degree itself.
I would say what matters the most
is how determined versus lazy you are and how positive versus pessimistic you are. That’s the killer of opportunity more often than the degree one has or the school one is from. Some people are so baselessly arrogant that they talk themselves into doing nothing for themselves , which over the long period of times is very self destructive and defeating imho, especially if major career and financial decisions are made based off of this
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In my day you could justify the 4-5 years of partying at a University because public schools used to be cheap and relatively easy to get into.
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Great, how did that work out for you
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I only bashed UCSD because if you are the type that it is important to have a degree from an “elite” University, UCSD will simply never look as good on your resume as UCLA, Cal or other traditional power schools.[/quote]
Your reasons for bashing UCSD is just so far flung, it’s further flung than the lizards from bearishgurl’s hood. What would you know about hiring for tech and medical? Have you even hired anyone or been in a role to hire anyone throughout your career? What is your career BTW, and what are your qualifications to be justifying your really off and baseless sweeping statements.
