as professional degrees do. If tomorrow an RHCE and, say, en engineer or an MCA are appearing for the same sys admin interview, I think the professionals would be preferred for the position anytime.
Then it would be a problem of the company if they did so. I can understand recruiting developers that way. But my personal belief is that sysadmin requires both theoretical as well as vocational knowledge .. right from the beginning.
I have seen plenty of engineers and MCAs with great academic backgrounds, being totally clueless on the field, and at the same time people with average and sometimes non-CS background doing exceedingly well.
CS is one tech field where, the books and equipment being more or less accessible to anybody, ... anyone can be good in, given the right drive. Yes, people may disagree to my saying this, but again, I am only talking about positions where the most demand is - in the SOHO and small and medium businesses market for IT services.
As compared to a field like Textile Engineering (my engg major), which would require you to spend long hours in sweltering textile mills to know how things work. :)
- Sadip
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