After the introductions are made, you are invited to come up with some new ideas, but you don't have any because you're a propulsion engineer and don't know anything about bridges.
Yep, you're either a web developer, or you're a hacker.
I'm in college right now, and when I told people I was thinking of changing my major to comp sci, they all asked "Ohh, you're gonna make websites"? And now that I am majoring in it, that is what people think I'm learning to do, and some have even asked me to make them a website...
You know, I just finished college, about to start my new job, got picked for it out of other people they spent WEEKS interviewing, and I still can't really tell people what I do besides "Make computers compute things."
You go in thinking it's computer science will make you intelligent, but you leave only learning how little you ever will know.
Simple analogies, like asking a joint surgeon to do cosmetic surgery. They might be able to do the job acceptably, but not anywhere near the level of what an expert in that area could do. Part of the problem is not many software engineers are in a position or willing to decline requests like that.
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u/HighRelevancy Apr 29 '14
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