<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Hi Alex, <br><br></div>I agree with you. I know some amazing people, from various professions, that don't have any degrees or professional qualifications. <br><br>We would never overlook someone with experience over a degree and I'm not a professional recruiter so I can't say why people, in general, have it as a requirement on job adverts. I assume it's to weed out those that just aren't at all qualified. <br>
<br>From our perspective, we're just looking for the right person that fits. I apologise if the email offended you. <br></div><br></div>Regards<br></div><span style class="">Bronwyn</span> <br>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Alex <span style class="">Reis</span> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alex@alexmreis.com" target="_blank"><span style class="">alex</span>@<span style class="">alexmreis</span>.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Just out of curiosity, which kind of testament of skill are you looking for by requiring someone to hold a BA in Computer Science? In my experience there's professionals from all walks of life that end up as programmers, and the best I know happen not to come from development subjects at all. <div>
<br></div><div>It would make some sense if you were building some sort of language, compiler or development tool, but for a web startup that does events, I can't see why you'd need someone good in building compilers, creating languages, image recognition, speech recognition, natural language parsing or any other sort of reasonably advanced algorithms. Even in that case, the best people in Machine Learning tend not to come from a CS background, but either statistics, physics or maths. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Nothing wrong with holding a Computer Science degree, and I praise those who do hold one, but I don't really see why people put it as a requirement on their job ads.</div><div><br></div><div>Sorry if this sounded rough in any way, my intention is only to incite discussion.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Kind regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Alex</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Bronwyn Allanson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bronwyn@evvnt.com" target="_blank">bronwyn@evvnt.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">Hi all, <br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br>
</div><div>We're looking for a full stack developer to join our expanding team. Anyone out there looking for a full time job in Central London with a competitive salary and great working environment?<br>
<br><i><font size="4"><b>About us: evvnt is a rapidly expanding start up providing marketing syndication services to event and venue managers around the world.</b></font></i><br><br></div><div>Developer requirements: <ul>
<li>Experience developing with Ruby on Rails and deploying on Heroku</li><li>Passion for technology and how to apply it to real business problems</li><li>Good communication skills and the ability to work in a team</li><li>
3 + years software development experience building scalable web applications</li><li>Excellent knowledge of JavaScript, HTML & CSS.</li><li>University degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related subject.</li>
<li>Front end developer experience would be a bonus but not a necessity (HTML, Haml, CSS, Sass and
CoffeeScript)</li>
</ul></div><div><br></div><div>If you're interested please get in touch! <br></div><div><br></div><div>Bronwyn <br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">-- <br><div dir="ltr">-- <br>Bronwyn Allanson<br>Technical and Operations Manager<br>
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