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Do you really need a Computer Science Degree to get a Software Engineering job??

 

IT industry is very big and there are lots of jobs in IT  and Software Engineering is one of them. I have heard from many people that in order to get into Software Engineering field you need a college degree with specific a CS degree.

This is a prolonged controversy that do I need a CS degree in order to get a job as Software Engineer??

In this article we’re gonna answer this question

 

The short answer to that is “NO” you do not need a computer science degree to be a software engineer however if you don't have any other means of proving that you can be a successful programmer or software developer you're not gonna have many opportunities coming your way so what do I mean by that??  Well to break this down, what a college  degree do for us?? A degree basically provides social proof that we're able to do  things that we say we can do so, in the specific instance of a computer science degree it basically says we are able to understand computer science fundamentals and basic level of understanding of programming. 







There are many  companies  that hire freshers and they understand they don't have a lot of industry experience however the degree says ok they have a foundation in computer science and they understand a bit about programming and they may be able to do this job successfully. So that's what a degree does, it provides us with social proof however the reason I say that no you do not need a degree is because there are other ways to provide social proof around being a programmer or software engineer for instance having industry experience or doing an internship maybe you are able to land an internship without a degree or you did internships during college so maybe you start at college and you start doing an internship but you did not complete your degree or your college at that point so now you have no degree but you have some level of industry experience. Most of the companies don’t care if a student has a college degree or not all that matters to them is your skills. Recently Google announced that you do not require a college degree in order to get a job at Google





Besides  Freelancing is a very good way to show that you can be a successful software engineer so building software on the side for people for money. Freelancing is a very good way to build up a portfolio in a body of work to basically prove that you were able to build software and take  software problems from start to finish

 

If you got an opportunity for interview  they're not gonna ask you  about your degree because now college degree doesn’t matter a lot, they’re gonna ask you about your skill sets and your past experience if you have any. So as you guys see the degree is kind of like a way to get your foot in the door if you don't have much experience however you have ten years of software development experience and no degree, in your brilliance they're not gonna turn you down because you don't have a degree, there have been instances of companies such as Google and this is Google  we're talking about we all understand that Google has a high bar for their software engineer as a matter of fact probably a high bar for anybody that they hire just because so many people want to work there  have been instances of companies such as Google hiring software engineers that do not have degrees because they happen to be brilliant and they have a body of work to prove that and they did very well in the interviews so obviously they would demonstrate their knowledge in a way that would impress the interviewers.

CONCLUSION:

If you have relevant skills that matches to the profile you are applying for then do not need a degree to be a software engineer . You can always start learning how to build software as there are tons of resources where you can start learning how to build Softwares and you can also get your foundation strong on Computer Science fundamentals from resources like  You tube, Udacity, Coursera and there are many courses launched by Google most of them are for free. So, get access to them and enter the Software Engineering world.

 

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