Re: ANNOUNCE: Vacant Job Positions

Pablo Sanchez (pablo@ppp-mew.corp.sgi.com) wrote: : Just to quickly jump into the fray... when I was working in the MIS : organization at HP that supported their Technical Center, there was a : guy their named Mark C. Mark knew the in's and out's of MPE 3000. : He was well respected and generally a nice guy. : Mark had *no* college degree. : I've done some recruiting for SGI and *we* do look if someone has a : degree but that's more of a rough "cut" if you will. If someone were : to come in with real high credentials and no degree I'm sure that : we'd still consider that person. (I shouldn't say that that was SGI : policy but rather how "I" did recruiting). How much is a 10 year old CS degree worth? How about 5? Credentials are great, but some companies are silly about it. If I have a 10 year old CS degree, and have been working the last few years as a pretty much anything, I could probably get an interview at one of these degree only shops as a programmer, even if for only a junior position. On the other hand, if I have no degree, but have been doing doing client/server, sockets, daemons, database, etc., programming, for the last few years, many places won't even read my resume. This seems strange to me. There are lots of reasons for people not to have a degree, folks. -- Bob Stewart ASE (310) 335-7152 Air Transportation Division bob@latcost1.alaao.ats.eds.com I am definitely NOT speaking for EDS.