"A related issue is that most professional programming is, well, easy."
This realization struck me so hard when I started on my first 'real' job. After seven years of studying to obtain my bachelor and master degree in computer science and mathematics I went to work as a programmer. In the first week I realized that I probably could have done the same job in high school (to be honest, I am probably overestimating my past self).
Something is wrong with the hiring process. Everyone wants to hire the brightest graduates, and let them build simple webapps, while in general this is very uninteresting work. I bet that there are a lot of people without a degree who could do the same job a lot better, simply because it is more challenging and they have a more practical attitude.
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[ 11.6 ms ] story [ 17.6 ms ] threadThis realization struck me so hard when I started on my first 'real' job. After seven years of studying to obtain my bachelor and master degree in computer science and mathematics I went to work as a programmer. In the first week I realized that I probably could have done the same job in high school (to be honest, I am probably overestimating my past self).
Something is wrong with the hiring process. Everyone wants to hire the brightest graduates, and let them build simple webapps, while in general this is very uninteresting work. I bet that there are a lot of people without a degree who could do the same job a lot better, simply because it is more challenging and they have a more practical attitude.