Can a Mechanical Engineer Get a Software/CompSci Job?

simba9
Fri, 17 Mar 2017 09:30:38 +0000

It used to be that anyone who could code could get a programming job, but every day programming gets more competitive and working without a degree gets harder and harder.

If you’re saying it’s harder to find a job without a degree, I’d agree. If you’re saying it’s harder to get a programming job without a CS degree, I’d disagree. There aren’t nearly enough people coming out of school with CS and Software Engineering degrees to fill the available jobs, so people with STEM degrees who have taken a few programming classes fill the backlog. Of the programmers I work with, CS grads are in the minority, even among the younger ones.