I spent 8.5 years teaching at a lower-tier, public "access" university in the US. Don't get me wrong, it was great for what it did, and I was fortunate to work with a lot of awesome people. But we were far from an elite, exclusive institution like Harvard or MIT.
For many years I served on the CS department's graduate admissions committee. Lots of our MS applicants talked about working on sites for major US / western brands, and lots of those kids did not make the cutoff for even our relatively low bar for admission.
I think about that a lot whenever I see that a multibillion dollar multinational corporation has a web page that doesn't work at all.
Computer Science is an odd match for basic programming. I would want a CS department to reject many people who are perfectly capable of making good websites.
I wish the US had a more appropriate path for "software development education" than "scientific study of computing" or commercial bootcamps.
Where I'm from, after high school there's vocational higher education (as opposed to scientific higher education), and parallel to high school there's vocational education.
For many years I served on the CS department's graduate admissions committee. Lots of our MS applicants talked about working on sites for major US / western brands, and lots of those kids did not make the cutoff for even our relatively low bar for admission.
I think about that a lot whenever I see that a multibillion dollar multinational corporation has a web page that doesn't work at all.