
#171 Emma Bostian is a software engineer at Spotify and an asynchronous mentor
Software Developers Journey
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Is There Too Much Gatekeeping With Engineering Degrees?
Many of the engineers that beam used to hire did not have engineering degrees at all. There really wasn't an engineering degree at the time when a lot of like my parents generation, were getting jobs. So i don't know where this gate keeping stigma of like people with engineering degrees are better, ok? It's a different path. Like they bring skills that boot camper stont, and boot campers bring skills that engineering students don't bring. It's their trade offs, and one is not better than the other. And i just wish that we would get rid of that. I hope that we're slowly getting there. But again, it's still there. Will always be
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