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Student developers were polled via 80 spring 2016 hackathons to asses how they feel about their career options. Some of the key finding were:
- 83% of students said they were looking for fulfilling careers, rather than simply for jobs.
- Students plan to stay an average of 2.9 years at their first full-time job.
- Students predict that they'll stay at later jobs for 5 years on average.
- Students expect to earn between $70–150K right out of school.
Details of the Devpost study can be found here.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 19 2016, @08:23PM
Not even I know why most software developers decided to be software developers, or why they were even allowed to get a degree; they have no aptitude for software development whatsoever. But I guess mediocrity or worse is tolerated at most colleges and universities. How sad.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 20 2016, @02:10AM
because most colleges weed out most of the good programmers by making them take useless math classes that have nothing to do with programming.
hate to break it to academia, but you do not need ANY calculus to be a programmer.
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Saturday May 21 2016, @02:13AM
Not even I know why most software developers decided to be software developers
In the late 70's I had a serious video game habit and bought a TRS-80 in hopes of saving some money. I quickly learned I'd rather program the thing than play games on it. At the time I was in college for an EE, third semester I changed to a computer science degree. At work my job was to QC boards and fix them as needed. Wrote Space Invaders for our 1553 analyzer, marketing found it and started showing it at trade shows. Helped that the version they grabbed I hadn't yet implemented the aliens shooting at you, but you could shoot them. Engineering found out about it, brought me over.
Ended up with a BS in Math, was an embedded software engineer until a few years ago when I went to work for a startup. They folded, and I learned companies won't interview people in their 50s, let alone hire them. So I "retired" at 52.
FWIW, my weekly budget was $30 for video games. After buying the TRS-80 it went down to maybe $20/week, but my salary bump more than made up for it.
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