GoogleAndroid head Sameer Samat told the budding engineers that a IT diploma alone is not enough to land the positions at Best technological companiesStressing that candidates must develop in-depth expertise in the fields which really fascinated them beyond their formal education.Addressing engineers, Samat argued that the major IT desperately needs to rebuild, because it is generally poorly understood that learning programming languages like Java. “If that’s what you want to do, you don’t need a diploma,” he said, explaining that real IT education focuses on problem solving methodologies, system design and collaborative approaches rather than coding skills.
IT education goes through the coding to problem solving
The Executive of Android, who studied IT at UC San Diego, stressed that discipline represents “the science of resolution problems” rather than technical implementation. Although the coding remains important, Samat noted that the rupture of complex problems, the design of evolutionary systems and the work effectively in a team constitute the proposal for the fundamental value of computer education.While artificial intelligence is increasingly automating fundamental programming tasks, questions on the practicality of the computer diploma have intensified. The AI tools now manage the basic coding functions, which makes it difficult for some graduates to guarantee full -time positions and internships on competitive technological markets.
The best technological companies require specialized expertise beyond academic diplomas
SAMAT warned that students pursuing computers only because others appreciate it do not impress potential employers. Instead, he pleaded for the development of “passion” in specialized fields outside IT, declaring that diplomas alone will only make candidates “relevant to some of the most important companies”.Based on the personal experience of launching two startups in their twenties, one of which led to meeting the co-founder of Google Sergey Brin, Samat demonstrated how entrepreneurial companies made him a more efficient Google contributor. He pointed out that whatever the additional interest candidates, “it is really important that it is something that you are really excited to go deeply and to really become an expert of 5% in the field.”Android’s head has recognized that programming languages will continue to evolve towards higher abstraction levels, potentially reaching interfaces in natural language where developers simply describe the desired results. However, it does not expect this transformation to “for a while”, by maintaining that the fundamental understanding of the underlying systems remains precious for serious software engineers.
