{"id":948356,"date":"2025-07-21T12:29:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T06:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=948356"},"modified":"2025-07-21T12:29:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T06:59:35","slug":"google-android-head-sameer-samat-to-engineers-beyond-the-degree-you-should-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/21\/google-android-head-sameer-samat-to-engineers-beyond-the-degree-you-should-have\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Android head Sameer Samat to engineers: Beyond the degree, you should have\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s head of Android Sameer Samat told aspiring engineers that a computer science degree alone isn&#8217;t enough to land positions at top tech companies, emphasising that candidates need to develop deep expertise in areas they&#8217;re genuinely passionate about beyond their formal education.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to engineers, Samat argued that the computer science major desperately needs rebranding, as it&#8217;s commonly misunderstood as merely learning programming languages like Java.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s head of Android Sameer Samat told aspiring engineers that a computer science degree alone isn&#8217;t enough to land positions at top tech companies, emphasising that candidates need to develop deep expertise in areas they&#8217;re genuinely passionate about beyond their formal education. Speaking to engineers, Samat argued that the computer science major desperately needs rebranding, as it&#8217;s commonly misunderstood as merely learning programming languages like Java.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-948356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}