Has CS become a meme degree? Can someone get a job nowadays with just a GitHub "portfolio" and contributions to the open source community?
Is it best to study pure math rather than CS?
Has CS become a meme degree...
Jace Morales
Samuel Richardson
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Xavier Evans
A job at some no-name startup is different than a job at FAANG. Also, the only job a pure math degree will get you is one as a math teacher.
Carson Sullivan
Meme? No, not as a degree.
But it's a meme by HR departments who are stupid.
They assume computer science = IT
Wanna be a help desk monkey saying "yes sir, your password is now reset!", get a CS degree.
Wanna work at 'teh googlz'? Get a CS degree.
One needs it, one does not = retarded HR think both need it
As a sysadmin, I could do maybe 5% of what a CS degree does, at best. And that's because of powershell which is technically programming.
Likewise, a CS degree doesn't mean you know networking/servers/windows/linux/etc.
It means you know CS.
Camden Butler
Study whatever you want. If you want to study math then study math. There are other majors that yes intersect with cs. Physics, linguistics and philosophy I've heard of programmers coming from those majors as well. If you're specifically interested in cs though there's nothing wrong with cs. It will better prepare you for software engineering.
Grayson Taylor
All degrees are a meme.
Dylan Murphy
Depends on how far into your education you go and what your desired job is
A bachelor's in pure math is pretty much worthless, in cs anything above a bachelor's is usually not worth it unless you want to do research/ai/some other emerging field
If you intend on being a software engineer you can be pure math but you'll be worse at your job than a CS major with an equivalent degree
Graduate degree in pure math has better return than a graduate degree in cs
David Stewart
how long after getting your certs did it take you to land a job becoming a sysadmin, or did you have to work your way up spending years doing help desk work?
Michael Wright
All degrees, jobs, concepts, words are memes. Everything is retarded, get NEETbux
Benjamin Martin
Neither.
Got a job being "IT guy" for charity.
Realized I was being given a dumping ground because the past retard thought "let's put everything on windows 10 even our 2GB RAM laptops because new windows kek"
Had to unfuck his mistakes, got a job somewhere else as junior sysadmin.
Got experience
moved up
No certs
no help desk