Sr. Server Engineer (Vintage Systems) at Living Computer Museum,

Brian Lanning [brianlanning at gmail.com] wrote: I'm not sure where you get the notion that a real computer science degree has anything much to do with programming. Dijsktra believed that "computer science" should have been called "computing science" (and - iirc - also said that you wouldn't expect studying astronomy to teach you how to build a telescope). That said, having seen the occasional syllabus for a few "computer science" degrees, perhaps they are correctly named after all :-) I think that where I work CVs do come straight to the engineers, so there's no HR filter. There's still an agency filter (except, I suppose, for those who know someone here or those who have enough nous to fire up a web browser and work out how to go direct ;-)) I know that at a previous place of employment we'd get maybe 50 CVs for a job. Evaluating 50 CVs in any meaningful sense takes a *long* time. It's much quicker to discard quickly based on some arbitrary standard factor (e.g. degree) and then scan the remaining 10 CVs more closely. Eventually you'll interview 5 and pick the one you get along with (and who looks like they probably actually did some of the things they claim to have done on their CV). As usual "the best is the enemy of the good enough". Doesn't matter if you reject the perfect job candidate as long as you get a reasonable one. Antonio