At the University of Maryland College Park, Systems Programming is, or was, course CMSC 415. Maybe you should have gone to a better school or, more likely, have paid attention when you were there.
And who are you to patronize other people because of their university choices? The university I went to didn't have a systems programming specific course either. So what's the deal here? The only good university is the University of Maryland College Park?
He made a good point, people often dismiss candidates because they see some buzzword they don't like. A good programmer is a good programmer regardless of what he calls him/herself. It's more important to assess a programmers competence, desires, and fit within a company than discriminate on what "type" of programming you think he should be doing.
I have never heard of University of Maryland College Park.
I had a course in OSes. And a course in databases. And a course in graphics. And a course on compiler design. So on and so forth. All part of the curriculum. They taught us to be computer scientists, not systems programmers or web engineers or whatever fancy title is nice. I should add that the university I attended is one of the top in the US for CS.
Also, in interviewing candidates, I did see that there are several schools that do teach about the toys rather than about CS. I generally ignore that and look for good developer qualities instead.
Your second sentence is pretty personally insulting, beyond the call of simply disagreeing with me. Please consider an edit?
