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Discussion on: In your environment, does a college degree matter?

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Fabian Holzer • Edited

At my company (in Germany), there is at least a strong bias towards some formal education. That would roughly translate to university degree, but for most positions an apprenticeship in the IT sector would also be sufficient.

The apprenticeships are paid programs where you are an employee of a company, but part of your work time is spent in vocational school, and the rest is spent hands-on working in your company. They usually last for three years, but can be shortened, usually dependent on your secondary education.

Self-taught (often: domain expert become programmer) is not unheard of, but it's becoming less common. Coding bootcamps are not - or at least: not yet - a mass phenomenon. I think most larger companies would have a little trouble to intergrate those into their rather conservative recruiting mindset...