u/LazyMeringue1973 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
"A CS degree on it's own doesn't mean that much, but what it represents is two things - A) Internships = Work Experience. B) 4 years spent engulfed in software" I've never done a CS degree but are CS students really spending 4 years engulfed in software? From what my understand
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
The ones at Stanford, MIT, and CMU are haha.
I'm from Canada originally my program was 100% engineering courses other than three electives my entire four years. When I did an internship down here, I was housed with a bunch of Carnegie Mellon students and they stayed up till 2 AM every night just talking about different rhythms and technological approaches and debating the pros and cons and stuff like that. It was like a magically eye-opening experience that made me regret commuting from home.
Obviously, that's not the norm, but if you're someone like Codesmith who is comparing themselves to ivy league grad schools then that's I'm holding them to.
If you want to talk about like a decent state school compared to a Bootcamp, then I would expect graduates to also have a hard time finding jobs if they don't have a lot of internships and didn't spend most of their time engufled in software.
Whereas that is the norm at MIT, it's likely a smaller case at less prominent schools.
This is why I'm not explicitly saying anyting is better than the other.