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My company just decided to stop hiring self taught candidates for junior positions. I'm pretty surprised to be honest and did not expect it, especially considering I joined as a junior several years ago completely self taught (then later went on to get my degree as the company paid for it). We're a big tech company, fully remote, starting pay for juniors is around ~150k USD. According to upper management, it's because the volume of self-taught applicants is too high (a few thousand per posting) and the quality of self-taught applicants is too low. Apparently a lot of teams have hired self taught developers and it's gone very bad. So as a result, the company announced Friday that it would no longer be hiring self-taught applicants and instead will require candidates to have a degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Software Engineering. Anyone else experienced this?

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My company just decided to stop hiring self taught candidates for junior positions. I'm pretty surprised to be honest and did not expect it, especially considering I joined as a junior several years ago completely self taught (then later went on to get my degree as the company paid for it). We're a big tech company, fully remote, starting pay for juniors is around ~150k USD. According to upper management, it's because the volume of self-taught applicants is too high (a few thousand per posting) and the quality of self-taught applicants is too low. Apparently a lot of teams have hired self taught developers and it's gone very bad. So as a result, the company announced Friday that it would no longer be hiring self-taught applicants and instead will require candidates to have a degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Software Engineering. Anyone else experienced this?
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nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 20:22:07 JST nixCraft 🐧

A tech company has adjusted its hiring focus to prioritize individuals with formal computer science degrees. They will no longer consider self-taught developers. What do you think? Is this a positive change? https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/1bmm967/my_company_just_decided_to_stop_hiring_self/

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