CS degree worth the cost?

NoKillli
Fri, 19 Oct 2018 17:39:20 +0000

I think a 2nd BA/BS degree is not worth it.

If you complete the undergrad Philosophy degree with maybe a CS minor, it may make the resume look a little better. Once your are producing at work, the undergrad major is almost insignificant. FWIW, one of the sharpest students in my math coursework was a philosophy major/math minor. Of all things, he loved Real Analysis and a we both ended up working for GE in the 80s until *Neutron Jack decimated our organization.

On my side of IT, many industry certifications are more heavily valued by some companies and organizations (CISSP, CISCO,VMware, DELL, EMC, NETAPP, HP, most firewall vendors). This is especially true in the systems integrations business. My main vendor is always sending their people off to conferences and training because their business partnerships with the manufactures require a certain # of employees have the certs.

I’m not sure if you are a pure developer or one of the new devops. Either way, learning about AWS and Azure would probably not be a bad idea. For better or worse, we are all heading in that direction…ugh!