SCOUT· 43%1h 40m·2026-10-29·TechnologySoftware engineering at Google & CS education with Titus Winters
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“There seems to be an underlying idea on much we hear about CS education that the sole purpose (or the main purpose) of a CS higher Ed degree is to train students as effectively as possible for a junior dev position in a big tech. He just sh…”
“I disagree, a bootcamp grad will be more productive right off the bat, but long term CS graduates will be better engineers if the bootcamp grads do not self study. Learning math, fundamental CS teaches you first-principle thinking, abstract…”
“Universities teach linked lists because they're the simplest form of structural recursion, not because they're used in practice.”
“Good university CS degrees teach people how to think and how to problem solve. They are they not about the specifics of the topics you learn.”
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