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limelight on May 19, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bootcamps vs. College

That hasn't been my experience. I've had plenty of offers where I literally didn't know their primary programming language at all.

Especially as you get to higher level positions, thinking skills are far more important than experience.

eropple on May 20, 2016 [–]

Yup yup. Thinking, communication, functioning as a human being who will have to talk to people who are not nerds. Simple asks, but they're uncommon enough that they can bend the odds a whole bunch.

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