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The existence of such jobs is a smell of "class solidarity" amongs some kind of upper-middle. "We don't care what you learned, as long as you went through the right social initiation programme".

By contrast, in software there is at least he potential to do things differently. On Friday I was on the interview commitee for a candidate who we accepted. Now I realize that I have no idea what degree she has (if any). Her CV was so full of past projects that I never got around to looking at her education.

It would be different for a fresh graduate, but if such a CV mentioned a vocational school or an online course, then that would be neither better nor worse than a CS degree.




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