Kevin: Advice for the world of IT
We have a lot of people that have
nontraditional backgrounds
that have made it here at Google.
I've worked with people who have history degrees.
I work with people who have economic degrees,
and they're writing scripts,
automating us on how we can
process these credits for this client.
I think people have a misconception that you have
to have a traditional path in order to succeed in IT.
A lot of people do follow the traditional path.
A lot of people do succeed
following that traditional path.
But I think the benefit of IT is that in the end,
people just want to know whether or
not you can fix the problem.
Make sure you have strong fundamentals.
They do end up coming back.
A lot of times people think that like,
I'm not going to need to worry about how to do.
Like, I don't need to know,
understand the TCP IP model or the OSI model.
That's like low-level stuff.
I can focus specifically on
this one particular application
or program that I'm going to be dealing with.
There are instances where you will run
into problems were in having
that foundational knowledge will be like
very integral to solving the problem.
As long as you're able to
get to a point where you feel
comfortable working with users,
fixing their problems and supporting
them in the best way for you and them,
you're going to always be viable in the world of IT.