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I can't offer any specific advice about the place but I can say - go for it.

Apart from the personal satisfaction of being a mathematician you go straight to the top of my interview list. Anyone with the dedication and commitment to do a maths degree on their own is the sort of person I want to talk to

My (admittedly personal and biased) guide is maths/physics and pref. advanced degrees first.

Followed by CS degrees from really top notch schools and then I ask why, if they are so smart they didn't do maths/physics at MIT? Acceptable answer is a complete overarching love of computer science.

Followed by no formal qualification devs - with some evidence that they have read/learned more than simply the SDK they were using.

And last on the list are CS grads from some no-name, anyone can get in, CS school. People who did a CS degree because their school counselor said it would get them a well paid job.



And here I'm a no-formal-qualification dev with many years of experience, now considering getting a CS degree from a no-name anyone-can-get-in school just because it's a prerequisite to being allowed into the US on an H1B or TN visa (because, as HN discussed yesterday[1], Canada has no tech scene.) You'd skip over me, no?

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4275634


There are no absolute statements.

I was just highlighting that while many bad jobs insist on a CS degree, many good ones treat a CS degree with some suspicion.

See also http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchool...


"There are no absolute statements."

This is exactly the kind of trap that will send a mathematician off on a few minute or years long tangent.

I know it contributes little; given the context i couldn't resist.


It was intended as a Godel-joke !


No love for engineering grads?


well perhaps, and even chemists ;-)




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