Can a Mechanical Engineer Get a Software/CompSci Job?

cosmicfish
Mon, 13 Mar 2017 12:24:48 +0000

Just make sure you take a few programming classes.

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. It’s not just knowing a language, it’s about understanding the structures and the methods and having the experience to make things efficient, and that is more than most people can learn in “a few programming classes”. There are thousands and thousands of CS grads every year who have spent years preparing to compete for these jobs, it is not easy to convince an employer that you are superior to them.