Title: ONE MILLION OF THE BEST JOBS IN AMERICA MAY GO UNFILLED... Source:
THE LEFSETZ LETTER URL Source:http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/ Published:Mar 1, 2013 Author:HOUNDDAWG Post Date:2013-03-01 02:03:01 by HOUNDDAWG Keywords:computers, coding, Midas and Gates, stacks o Views:238 Comments:6
...BECAUSE ONLY 1 in 10 SCHOOLS TEACH STUDENTS HOW TO CODE. (and that blows)
WATCH THE VIDEO AND PASS IT ON or prepare for a million more hungry Indians arriving on H1B Visas!
Poster Comment:
"Learn to code online at code.org"
Also, and this is important; feel free to hate on Bob Lefsetz.
They make it look great don't they? The truth is that the companies that create atmospheres like the ones shown in this video are probably 1/2% of the companies out there. The rest are normal businesses, small medium, and large, where your boss expects you to sit behind your computer all day and bang away at code.
While they make it sound like anyone can get a job at the companies in the video, the fact is that they only hire people from the very best colleges. Very few, if any, are hired from your local state college.
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Microsoft comes to Missouri State University every year "looking" for graduates. You know how many they've hired over the years? None. Not a single student. I don't know why they even bother coming. I guess they travel the country going to colleges looking for programming geniuses.
They make it look great don't they? The truth is that the companies that create atmospheres like the ones shown in this video are probably 1/2% of the companies out there. The rest are normal businesses, small medium, and large, where your boss expects you to sit behind your computer all day and bang away at code.
While they make it sound like anyone can get a job at the companies in the video, the fact is that they only hire people from the very best colleges. Very few, if any, are hired from your local state college.
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Microsoft comes to Missouri State University every year "looking" for graduates. You know how many they've hired over the years? None. Not a single student. I don't know why they even bother coming. I guess they travel the country going to colleges looking for programming geniuses.
When we opened the first microcomputer store in Iowa in 1977 (and obtained the Midwest Apple franchise) there was a gal who worked in our store writing code all day long, day in and day out. She was a contractor and a student and she divided her time between the two tasks.
I don't exactly know what arrangement she had with the boss because she wasn't writing for us or any of our customers.
But, after looking over her materials and watching her slave away for months, I wondered two things: What expectations steered her into her chosen profession, and, would she someday jump out a window?
Of course I was taking a hiatus from the music biz, the road, the non Christian personal manager who had me driving from Orlando to Niagara Falls or Va Beach to New Orleans for five bills a week if I was lucky, and I expected some things to change. But, if I had to type code for a living they'd have prolly found me swinging in a noose someday....
And, I believe that you're correct about the search for the rare genius. One such gifted individual can mean the diff between prospering and expanding in The Valley, or a company's clever logo sought only by e-waste salvage kids who breathe the burning carcinogens to harvest the recyclable lunch munny inside.