By: Jerry Dickerson
Why should fancy degrees make you a better candidate for a programming job than others who lack the degrees, but may be better coders? This question was a White House economist and a Harvard Fellow, Mr. Rosenbaum. Instead of publishing a research paper regarding the topic, he decided to start his own business. This business was founded for the purpose of finding these talented employees without fancy college degrees that are commonly overlooked. He created a platform that compared the resumes of people hired for coding positions with their job performance further down the road.
Mr. Rosenbaum's platform discovered that there is no correlation between having a college degree and being a good software engineer. His software has been running for 14 years now and has processed over 10,000 resumes. Even though this study was very revealing, IT managers said, "Trusting software to make such hiring decisions, abandoning the "credentialism" typical at large companies, was a bridge too far."
This is interesting because we recently had a Morehouse graduate come to crown forum and speak to us about how learning to code was the most profitable that we could do in order to assure that we are the "disrupters" of the future and not the "disruptees". He said that since software isn't costly to use or to make available to the world, it was the best way to make money in this time period.
ReplyDeleteThis is a very intriguing blog post Mr. Dickerson. I agree with the article you do need to a degree to programming. Having a degree should be asset to do programming but it should not be a requirement. If someone know what they are doing it should not matter. I feel like their are many careers that force you to earn a degree even when a degree is not necessarily important.
ReplyDeleteThis is a very intriguing blog post Mr. Dickerson. I agree with the article you do not need to have a degree in programming. Having a degree should be asset to do programming but it should not be a requirement. If someone know what they are doing it should not matter. I feel like their are many careers that force you to earn a degree even when a degree is not necessarily important.
ReplyDeleteThis is a very interesting topic. As I approach graduation, I'm consistently thinking "what's next?" Immediately, I think of different trades like coding, hair styling, and kung fu to enhance my education. The wave of the future seems like it will work almost like the industrial age, however, it will happen in the cloud. People will develop different trades and help other near and far.
ReplyDeleteThis is a very interesting topic. As I approach graduation, I'm consistently thinking "what's next?" Immediately, I think of different trades like coding, hair styling, and kung fu to enhance my education. The wave of the future seems like it will work almost like the industrial age, however, it will happen in the cloud. People will develop different trades and help other near and far.
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