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From: steve@ragman (Steve Stevenson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Languages in the the REAL world -- Listing
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Date: 11 Nov 88 13:03:36 GMT
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From article <1290001@hpcllla.HP.COM>, by daryl@hpcllla.HP.COM (Daryl Odnert):

> Please, take advantage of the opportunites available during your college
> education outside your major.... Computer nerds come a dime-a-dozen.
> Talented, resourceful, and well-rounded engineers [ and scientists ]
> are hard to find... but are exactly what the best companies to work
> at are looking for.


As a professor and long time industry habitant, let me add a hearty AMEN
to the above comments.  The biggest piece of feedback we get from our
graduates is ``you didn't tell us that we'd have to do something besides
program.''

A personal anecdote --- When I was with Bell Labs, they began in late
1979 or so to NOT hire undergraduate computer science students.  This
was because those folks could not interact with the rest of the Labs.
That policy is still in effect, I think.