From: Michael Campbell <michael.campbell@...>
Date: 2004-06-09T04:31:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Unit tests ... not just for the young

> > I wouldn't necessarily disagree, but the absence or presence of a CS
> > (et. al.) doesn't necessarily skew that heavily in one way.  I've been
> > in this industry a long time too, and I've seen this assertion made a
> > lot of times, almost exclusively by people w/o the degree they're
> > blaming poor workmanship on.
> 
> There's truth behind the assertion.
> 
> Degrees look GREAT in interviews.  Given a young, sharply-dressed person with
> a degree, compared with a middle-aged programmer with loads of experience but
> no degree, people just get gooey about youth and pedigree.  It's human
> nature.


Again, that says nothing about the degree; it says something about the
interviewer and/or the interview process.