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Ask HN: What skills a company expects to have a self-taught web dev?
8 points by alinalex on Jan 15, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments
Being a self-taught web dev myself, I'm curious how a company assess a self-taught candidate versus a CS degree one.


Simple, get SHIT done. If you can get SHIT done, you are in. That's what matter


I've never seen a company that has different assessment based on education, if it's for same role. Especially since most of what you learn in CS degree is irrelevant to web development.


I disagree. Building performant and reliable web software requires good knowledge of data structures and algorithms.


Maybe for backend development, but definitely not for frontend, which is what the majority of web developers do anyway.


IT wouldn't make a difference. If you're asking each candidate different questions based on their education you aren't equally assessing them. There are enough variables involved when interviewing there is no need to introduce more.




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