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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here is my take on this.  Most CS jobs do NOT require a CS degree to do the job.  Most developers in the DMV are just coders.  It might make a difference elsewhere but not in the DMV as far as I can tell.  Landing a CS job is also more about who you know than what you know.  I can hire someone with a CS degree from GMU and that person can do just as good a job as someone with a CS degree from UMD or UVA.  In fact, I had to turn down a CS major candidate for an internship at my company for someone studying liberal arts and minor in CS from Goucher (I didn't even know Goucher is a college until I looked it up).  He was chosen over the UMD candidate because my boss knows his parents.  It is what it is but who you know matter a whole lot more. YMMV.
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I’m a dev team lead managing 7 devs, a BA and some testers.  I interview a lot of developers for our various teams.

We hire people with CS degrees.  Not sure what’s meant by “just coders” but we interview  lots of people who don’t understand key concepts (e.g. SOLID) or don’t know algorithms and data structures,  and we always pass.  Algorithms aren’t actually that important to what we do, but if someone can’t be bothered to learn that, it doesn’t bode well. [/quote]

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