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Yea seriously. I work on Cisco crap for a living, and when I started in PC support, most of our developers (whether it was mainframe, Java, Windows...) didn't know diddly squat about their computers. All just seemed like smoke & mirrors to them. Now granted not all were complete morons about how computers work, but a surprising number of them were/are...
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA Oh man, this is so true. It honestly shocks me how little a college CS major imparts in terms of actual applicable knowledge. I shudder to think what the master's and Ph.D programs require.
It all depends on the school. Masters in CS is a little different too cause you have a very specific area of focus. I went in having 5 years experience as a junior systems admin and felt totally underprepared for some of my classes.
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