I was watching the video in this post and at time index 3:03, Mark Zuckerberg says "Our policy is to literally hire as many talented engineers as we can find." Zuckerberg goes on to say their system limits are in part due to lack of resources to help the build what their products. Sounds like a good problem to have. He mentions lack of training as a reason they aren't able to find enough engineers. And I'll give him that, many of our schools aren't teaching the critical skills people need to build the technology of the future. I can attest to this first hand after a recent semester in college, the technology classes are outdated or not relevant.
I didn't want this to turn into a rant about education, but the bottom line is, Colleges and Universities need to be as forward thinking as companies need to be. It's not good enough to spend $100K on a degree and have to start with little or no knowledge of the tech field.
In this same video, Will.i.am talks about how our world runs on technology yet very few of us know how to code to make things work. I agree. Even a basic understanding of computer code can be valuable. And there are plenty of online learning tools.
http://www.codecademy.com/
http://girldevelopit.com/
https://www.udacity.com/
I'm not really looking for a job, and despite what personal feelings you may have about Facebook, I have my own, working for this company as an engineer would be very cool. So Facebook, let's talk! Here is my LinkedIn profile.
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I didn't want this to turn into a rant about education, but the bottom line is, Colleges and Universities need to be as forward thinking as companies need to be. It's not good enough to spend $100K on a degree and have to start with little or no knowledge of the tech field.
In this same video, Will.i.am talks about how our world runs on technology yet very few of us know how to code to make things work. I agree. Even a basic understanding of computer code can be valuable. And there are plenty of online learning tools.
http://www.codecademy.com/
http://girldevelopit.com/
https://www.udacity.com/
I'm not really looking for a job, and despite what personal feelings you may have about Facebook, I have my own, working for this company as an engineer would be very cool. So Facebook, let's talk! Here is my LinkedIn profile.
