On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 22:13:41 -0700 (PDT) John Coryat <[email protected]> wrote:
> Degrees aren't really necessary for a person to be a good software engineer. > Experience is a far better teacher. That's why the idea of hiring kids out > of high school is ludicrous. They don't know how to wash behind their ears, > much less deal with co-workers, customers and real world problems. Let them > grow up a little first before throwing them to the wolves. College is the > perfect place to do it. Yes and No, we've hired hardware engineers with amasing education that were useless but good talkers. Our best engineers have been aprentices, some with time spent at Uni, others not. I thought that would be obvious, the difference is the time it takes for quality and the lag and expense before results. The point is Experience is the important thing which apprentices will have more of so be better earlier, without any hindrance. Uni teaches good and bad behaviour almost always. You do have to make sure they're the right people with a good attitude though. The great thing about UNI apart from the number of people it trains is that things may be worked on that private companies wouldn't but with the intended privatisation of Universities that may? be lost. Would BSD and so Linux exist without that, I hope so but I doubt it? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
