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2,101 PointsMy chances of landing a job as a Front-end developer with an Associates Degree and my learning in Treehouse?
I am about to receive my associate's degree in Computer Science this spring and due to personal reasons, I am wanting to earn a position in a front end development work instead of going for my Bachelors. Through the past years, the degree plan has only taught me C++ and I felt that was not enough for my experience, so I decided to use Treehouse to learn more languages. I want to start making my portfolio as soon as possible. Also, how would write this down on my resume? Thank you
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Tan Ahmed
1,436 PointsTo become a front end dev, I did my bachelors in CompSci while teaching myself html5/css3/JS/Wordpress, and building my portfolio. All of this together helped me become a junior front-end.
Sometimes the degree isn't worth the paper its printed on, but you just need it to compete with other bachelors.
jrs0801
259 PointsIt depends on the company for what it seems like me saying for the 10000000000 time to people.
This isn't based on opinion or pulling stuff out of my back end, but on real research.
Will some companies care about degree? Yes. A company like google is going to care about degrees IF you are just starting out (and I say if as I know a googler who works there without a degree.....but brought over 5 years of experience) and then you better come from a TOP school. No knock on a Kansas State but for them it won't carry the same weight as a Cal Tech.
Other companies will care about the degree, but not necessarily the school.
Now with all this said, many, and I do mean many more companies like the smaller ones and the younger ones the ones outside silicon valley won't care one bit about a piece of paper. Not one bit. Much, much more weight will be put on your portfolio.
So really what it comes down to is what kind of place you want to work for. I chose treehouse because for me personally I don't want to work for some giant animal where someone might only know me by a number. I can easily forego the "presitge" for a place in which the CEO knows me by my first name, where my co-workers and I are truly a family, and where there's a much better work/life balance even if the salary may be a little less. As you get older you will really, REALLY begin to appreciate that as your years go on.
Daniel Salas
2,101 PointsI'm not looking to work with the big companies just yet. I want to start small. I do have plans on coming back to school soon to complete my bachelor's. However, I am just looking to work with small companies for now. However thank you for the advice!