Re: Certification or College degrees?

[ggm () apnic net]

The base pre-req for this is that the person is educated to tertiary level
skills in Maths. Or, are evidently bloody good for other reasons.

Lets not forget that some of the people who write the systems are actually
just smarter than me, and thats why they find it simpler and I find it hard.

Anyway, I echo Randy. I think that you should go for people who have
fundamentals like an understanding of analysis, synthesis (of ideas) and
processes like introspection. And who have graph theory, numerical analysis,
statistics...

-George

> if i was to take a newbie, i would much rather hire someone who has
> taken algorithms and data structures, queuing, ... than someone who
> has spent their time studying for whatever juniper and cisco call
> their vendor certifications.
>
> one can teach a monkey how to hack a router, as is demonstrated on
> a daily basis.  but a little computer science goes a much longer
> way.
>
> randy
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