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> Don't hire for a fancy degree. There are some companied coming to my college for hiring. The first criteria they put was 70% aggregate marks (60% for some co
by l1feh4ck 10y ago
> Don't hire for a fancy degree.
There are some companied coming to my college for hiring. The first criteria they put was 70% aggregate marks (60% for some companies).
I have seen people who doesn’t know how to write even a small program getting hired, while people with good programming skills are not even eligible to attend the interview.
Going through 200-300 candidates in an interview might be a tedious job, I am not sure. What other choice do they have?
- MrLeftHand 10y agoHad a coworker from a university, didn't even know how to write a while loop. He didn't last long to say the least. Of course we will never know, if he could have been a good programmer or not, but it was baffling to see people fresh out of uni with zero knowledge.
- Taylor_OD 10y agoI think the idea is that the "smart" person will be able to learn what they need to on the job quicker. The person with lower grades may be a better developer but right now of school I think most employees are hiring based on potential and culture fit vs actually development ability.