[LRUG] [JOBS] - Ruby Programmer Wanted FT/PT to join funded startup as lead tech/ CTO (urgent)

[Jim Myhrberg]

I totally agree. Personally I don't have any degree, or even officially finished primary school. But that's got nothing to do with the knowledge and skills that I actually posses.

As for finding work, code examples, open source projects on github and talking geekshit to an interviewer/developer about your work has always been more than enough for me to get a job :) 


-jimeh


On Wednesday, 17 April 2013 at 17:31, Adam Carlile wrote:

> Precisely Alex, I've often thought about what my degree says about me, however I have learnt that employers are more concerned with the contents of my Github account. 
> 
> Degrees often indicate that you have the capability to learn a subject, not that you're necessarily proficient at it.
> 
> On 17 Apr 2013, at 17:28, Alex Heeton <alex at heeton.me (mailto:alex at heeton.me)> 
>  wrote:
> 
> > 
> > > Developer should ideally be a computer science grad from a red brick/
> > > Oxbridge uni.
> > 
> > I can also say that of all the developers, CTOs and computer scientists I know, degrees or where they got them has little relevance to their skills.  
> > 
> > I have a computer science degree from a "red brick uni", and it's a passing note in my CV; never spoken of again. Certainly not what defines me.  
> > 
> > 
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