Observations from interviewing recent college graduates

simba9
Fri, 25 Nov 2016 23:53:14 +0000

I’ve only read the original post and the first few comments. My immediate reaction was that this demonstrates why so many of us with long experience working in high-tech keep saying on CC that where you went to school doesn’t matter that much for CS. We’ve seen how people from Stanford and MIT sit in the same little cubicles, doing the same kind of work, as people from any other college.

I think one of the key things is to make sure the computer science program is ABET accredited

ABET accreditation for CS is unnecessary. I got my CS degree in 1983, and didn’t even know that there was an accreditation program for CS until about three years ago when someone mentioned it on CC. A few years ago I did a survey of the top 100 CS programs (I can’t remember where I got the ranking) and less than half were accredited.