On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Parthan SR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have another question. A lot of people employed in Y domain are actually > from other domains, especially in India's IT companies we have more people > from Electronics, Electrical, Mechanical, Production, Civil put together > than Computer Science and IT. Most of us (as in out companies) end up hiring > a non-computer guy. How does this fit into the scenario? Myself coming from > Electrical and Electronics background and half of my colleagues too coming > from non-engineering background, I somehow feel non-CS or non-IT have been > more successful with IT jobs than their CS/IT peers. > IMHO: I think the matter is more of interest rather than degrees. Among those who are ambitious enough to want to go up the industry's value chain, the degree-getters do so by doing more advanced degrees and proving their ability through research and the self taught types, do so by taking up challenging projects and learning things as they work. Since they are very interested, they are also able to match their counterparts who have degrees. I somehow tend to believe that those who do Ph.Ds and advance the field by their research are better than the self taught ones (so they might be the ones that I would employ if I were an employer :D), but this is more or less subjective to me. To answer your question about non-CS people doing relatively better, I think it appears so because the average non-CS person is more interested in the field than the average CS person, simply because the average CS person did his/her degree because it was the "in" thing and not because they were interested, and the average non-CS person learned everything required for the job on their own (purely based on interest). -- Aditya Manthramurthy B. Tech, Computer Science and Engineering National Institute of Technology, Trichy _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
