On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Mac Newbold <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been involved in a lot of hiring where I work, for both PHP and other > development-related positions, and the consensus here is that it matters. > It's not usually a deal breaker, but we're much more sure of what we're > getting in a candidate who did his work at the Univ. of Utah, or UVU, or > Neumont, or BYU, than we are about someone from a school we don't know > well. In particular, schools that have more of a "job training" feel to > them like a Univ. of Phoenix, or a Stevens Henager, or ITT Tech, sometimes > don't mean as much to us as educational programs where we know they had > plenty of theory and practiced creative problem solving. > > The school you attended also is less of a factor the longer you've been out > of school. It means more before or soon after graduation than it does after > you've been in the workforce for 5 or 10 years or longer. Then job > experience speaks a lot more loudly than school background. > > My two cents, for what it's worth...
I would say a big ditto to Mac's comments here. I think he nailed it on the head. Also, if you have great work experience and no degree it hurts you less as you get more experience. -- Chris Wood -=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
