eryjus wrote:
I offer a US perspective as well.
Schol-R-LEA wrote:
most larger HR departments won't even look at your resume if you don't have at least a BSCS
The reason for this is that the degree tells the companies that:
* you can be taught
* you can learn on your own
Now, I see 2 very different career paths in software. 1 is the typical software engineer as you described. The other that is usually overlooked but is by far more prevalent in my opinion, is in a corporate Information Technology department. These careers (and I include myself here), are individuals that know their business as much as they know computers. in this case, a Computer Science degree might get your resume more serious look, but a Business Administration degree will get you an interview.
My advice to the OP is to take a really close look at what you want to do. In a corporate IT setting, a Computer Science degree that cannot communicate with the business is not desirable, but a Business Admin degree with a concentration in Computer Information Systems that interfaces with the business well and can talk the lingo with the programmers (and maybe even get into the code) is incredibly valuable (one such job title is Business Analyst). In a software house, the Computer Science degree works well.
You can learn on your own even if you don't have degree.
Over there degree also could mean you are too lazy to go to work so you are going to school. (Like half of my high school colleagues.)
In my country HR calls you, ask you some questions about programming when you can answer them you can be promoted to interview with someone who has programming skills. He will look at your LinkedIn profile, CV, your opensource projects on github, etc. Just because degree can get almost everyone there.
But yes, getting your first job without any previous professional skills or degree is quite hard. But after half year in maybe worse company you can try to get better job somewhere else.
HR over there uses LinkedIn to find new people. Maybe try to fill it like for more dump people.
This is my LinkedIn profile and I'm getting like 5 to 10 job requests per month.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ren%C3%A9-% ... 27441a110/