Originally posted by: spidey07
business MBA would trump a comp sci degree in that case.
I still firmly stand that there is more money and knowledge with a business degree. You may not see it out of school, but later in ones career it will be invaluable.
engineers have very little real world knowledge or business sense. And they don't get paid that well either. they are the grunts, the worker bees.
well you can get an MBA after you have a CS degree. i know the ucla school of business 40% of the mbas admitted come from an engineering undergrad. so its not exactly uncommon, its probably desired. you know a manager who can actually relate to his worker bees are you call them is bettter than one who cant and gets no respect. it really doesnt matter what your undergrad was anyway, it is like the smallest factor in mba admissions since you have probably been working for 4-5 years at that point.
the ceo of veritas was a cs major btw. he was like 41.
as for the whole who can get into management thing. it really doens't matter as far as i can tell what your degree is. there are managers at my company who didnt go to college.
you just have to have people skills. that is what managing is about not about degrees, you cant teach leadership, you have it.
also a lot of computer science degrees are very engineering related. i got my comptuer science degree at ucla in 2003. it was in the engineering school so i had to take the same pre-reqs as all the other engineers.
itook like 3 electrical engineering classes, a couple circuit design labs, i swear like 8-9 math courses, physics the whole deal. it all ties together anyway, i know at ucla you can be eece, cse or pure cs. and its more just a leaning towards what you specialize in in the computer field.
lastly, for you guys still in college i totally envy the current job market. when i was 2 years through college as well as my friends, it was 2001 the dot coms just died and internships were no where to be found. you basically had to be a 4.0 student and some of my friends (me included) had a fairly rough time getting a "good" job coming out.
computer science does seem to have less hours for some. i generally work a 40 hour week at my company unless we are in crunch time which is like 3 months of the year where i may work more like 55 . i come in to work everyday at 11am sometimes later, leave 9 or 10 hours later. lunch is whenever i feel like, and we have a lot of time to "learn things on our own". that and i come in wearing baggy pants, random sports jerseys etc. we have no dress code. that is the environment of well a lot of development centers for larger companies. ours is a bit more relaxed, but its got some perks being an engineer.
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