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| Topic | Is it realistic to think that a coding job could be attained without any formal |
| Dikitain 10/21/20 7:10:06 AM #15: | 20-30 years ago it happened all the time. Nowadays it is a lot more rare (if it even happens). Every job I have interviewed for has wanted me to program a small project, or at the very least write up a solution on the fly on a whiteboard. You get weeded out pretty quick if you didn't know what you are doing. Plus what people don't realize is the difference between an amateur coder and a professional coder is that professional coders don't write code, we modify existing code to work with new problems. That is why the position is typically called "Software Engineering", because your job is to litterally engineer a solution out of existing software. No one sits in a room and writes a piece of software from scratch anymore, it is too time consuming. All software is just combined from hundreds of other pieces of software with some code/configuration to get it working the way you want. --- I am a Contract Software Developer. What does that mean? I don't know, let me know if you figure it out. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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