I am a generalist undergrad, just finished my graduation, doing final year thesis on Computer File Systems. I have deep understanding of various abstraction layers of Computers and how they work together, waiting to specialize on cloud, servers, ops and infosec. CV and blog (https://ovebepari.github.io) for more details.
> "turns out problems of different kind requires different bachelor degrees."
Aren't we talking about CS here. I understand your point ofc. As a CS undergrad, what other options you have to prove that you are capable and know different strategies and tactics (brute forcing, divide and conquer etc) to handle and maybe solve a problem?
My point is competitive programming or math competitions isn't a field specific skill. It teaches you various ways to solve various (life) problems in general. Brute forcing, divide and conquer, backtracking, recursion/Induction can be applied to anything.
I'm not opinionated. If there is any other way of proving that someone is good at these tactics, I'd love to work with them.
I understand the rant but I would like to hire someone who are good at solving problems (of any kind) and can detect the edge cases very well and without deep math or competitive programming knowledge, it's not possible at all these days.
However, I am an undergrad myself and sometimes I take pride in being a generalist, spent my fair share of time on every abstraction layers of CS possible. Now that I'm in my final year, I'm concentrating to know more about *nix system internals, doing a thesis on Computer File Systems and occasionally doing Competitive Programming to be a better problem solver.
A Bangladeshi here. Let me make something clear first:
- Facebook doesn't handle the transactions (yet), some mobile banking is used for transactions.
- Facebook works because you can sponsor a video of your product explaining the condition and people are very skeptic here about things, so video works, pictures like amazon don't.
- It's still a developing country and people like offers and facebook reaches bigger audience/customers.
- People do comment on Facebook, great for honest product reviews.
One might think of Bangladesh's GDP and think things are good. To be honest things are better than before but that GDP amount is inflated by the riches. We're still an agricultural country starting to make our way through the intellect based economy.