<div dir="ltr">I studied Maths and CompSci at Oxford about 10 years ago - gave me a great grounding in certain principles but IN NO WAY prepared me to be a developer in the real world (nor was it really supposed to). I left uni as an idealist without having written a line of code in any language actually used outside academia. Any pragmatism/process/good programming practice which I've learned has all been on the job. Oxford grads can make great *analysts* out of the box, but if you want one to be a lead tech you'd better be sure that they were accomplished programmers before they started their course, or be prepared to spend a good few years moulding them into a real-world dev.<br>
<br>Caveat: maybe everything has changed since my day.<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 17 April 2013 16:57, Gerhard Lazu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gerhard@lazu.co.uk" target="_blank">gerhard@lazu.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><font color="#000000"><font size="4"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">One of the m<font size="4">ost disappointing applicants that I have ever interview<font size="4">ed </font>was <font size="4">a D.Phil. in Computer Sc<font size="4">ience from</font></font> Oxford<font size="4">. Smart as a button, pragmatic as <font size="4">that</font> red brick<font size="4"> t<font size="4">hat you've mention<font size="4">ed.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font><br>
<br><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Chris McGourty <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chrism@boxworld.co.uk" target="_blank">chrism@boxworld.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Developer should ideally be a computer science grad from a
red brick/ Oxbridge uni.</blockquote></div><br><br><br clear="all"></div><div><br><hr style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#3333ff"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://twitter.com/#!/gerhardlazu" target="_blank">Twitter</a> <a href="https://github.com/gerhard" target="_blank">Github</a> </font><a href="http://gerhardlazu.com/" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" target="_blank">Blog</a></font></div>
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