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Question about how many jobs really need a computer science degree
I was looking at job ads on Indeed for junior web dev roles in Austin. I saw that out of 50 postings, only 12 actually said you needed a CS degree. The rest just asked for a portfolio or some bootcamp experience. I found this on a coding blog that tracks this stuff every year. It really surprised me because I always thought you had to have that four-year degree to even get looked at. I'm starting to think building good projects might be more important than I realized. Has anyone else here gotten a job without the formal degree?
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graywright21d ago
Tell you what, my CS degree is mostly good for propping up the short leg on my desk these days. I learned way more about linked lists and big O notation than I ever did about building an actual form that works. The best devs I know just made a ton of stuff that broke, then figured out how to fix it. That blog is right, a solid portfolio of real projects beats a framed piece of paper almost every time for these front-end jobs.
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