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Comment by hkarthik | Hacker News Reader

I think that this is true in Silicon Valley and possibly NYC, but not in other areas.

I firmly believe we just haven't churned out enough CS graduates nationwide over the past decade to meet the demand of both the startups and the established businesses that are all hiring right now.

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Good thing you don't need to be a CS grad to churn out a mobile social coupon CRUD app and website.

But the mobile social coupon CRUD owners only want to hire the top 2% and then cry they can't find anyone. The job market is like taking a racing horse and having it plow a field. The incubators have a similar problem, the candidates are so good they don't even really need the incubator, I imagine the incubators doing worse as time goes on because people are not so hungry for success and will just combine with others when the going gets tough.

Or, just maybe, many of the startups synergizing twitterscapes and being the X-but-social-networked might not need high-caliber bleeding-edge CS grads, and could probably get by with coffee-fueled hacks?

I hear there's a gem for that...

You don't have to be a CS graduate to be good at programming.

You need to have a genuine interest in what you're doing. Otherwise, you're not likely going to do (let alone enjoy doing) what it takes to be good at this.

You always need to improve your current abilities and add new ones. That can be done by coding and reading (probably in that order). Github is great for this kind of thing.

You need to be aware of advancements and changes in your profession. Sites like HN are great for this.

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