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0 pointserroneousfunk10y ago0 comments

But 40-50% really isn't that bad at all, considering in the general (non-programming) job market, people often send out dozens and dozens of resumes before getting an interview at all. I have many non-programmer friends who have been looking for work for months, with a college degree.

So you have to send out two resumes where the average degree'ed programmer has to send out one? Could be worse. You did, after all, opt to not spend four years of your life in an academic institution -- there are pros and cons to that decision.

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fweespeech10y ago

Eh, its more like 80% factoring in the jobs that didn't meet my criteria to consider them "degree related rejections".

But yeah, 5:1 resume:interview isn't bad. I'm just saying some people do care.

> So you have to send out two resumes where the average degree'ed programmer has to send out one? Could be worse. You did, after all, opt to not spend four years of your life in an academic institution -- there are pros and cons to that decision.

Yeah. That more or less seems to be the case. I'm not complaining, just replying to the post I replied to originally which said "no one cares" about a degree.

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fweespeech10y ago

Eh, its more like 80% factoring in the jobs that didn't meet my criteria to consider them "degree related rejections".

But yeah, 5:1 resume:interview isn't bad. I'm just saying some people do care.

Yeah. That more or less seems to be the case. I'm not complaining, just replying to the post I replied to originally which said "no one cares" about a degree.

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