| Edit: I know it is anecdata but I do want to point out that there are counterexamples under specific circumstances (read when creating CRUD apps). I just got into the job market (I studied for 8 years, 4 degrees, now graduated for good, did some serious jobs on the side). So far I disagree. I have had 5 freelance gigs: two in iOS (couple of years ago), one as a web dev coding instructor for a year (1 to 2 years ago), one in React frontend (1.5 years ago) and now 1 as a full-stack/dev-ops/semi 'data scientist' person. Computer science allows me to rise above the difficulties that I'm facing now since all I'm building are glorified CRUD apps. I am looking for a company that takes software engineering more seriously than this. Because of building glorified CRUD apps and some knowledge of soft skills + some git knowledge is all there is, then a computer science degree is overkill. For comparison: I made iphone apps during courses in my CS degree, I disabled viruses, fiddled around with concolic execution, created a computer graphics engine, created a compiler(ish) an operating system(ish), learned UML, some software architecture. How is this not enough for CRUD apps? |