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How many of them did you end up hiring? That's not sarcastic, I'm genuinely curious. My experience with ITT tech candidates was the opposite. When interviewing
by korethr 10y ago
How many of them did you end up hiring? That's not sarcastic, I'm genuinely curious.
My experience with ITT tech candidates was the opposite. When interviewing for a datacenter tech position, the candidates were hit and miss on basic sysadmin questions, and seemed to have never seen computer hardware before. To be fair, rackmountable datacenter-style computers look quite a bit different on the outside from the more commonly seen towers and laptops you'll find on a person's desk in an office. But once you open one up, basic components are similar enough that they should be easy to identify. DIMMs are DIMMs, hard drives are hard drives, etc. But when you point to a power supply and tell me that it is the CPU because it has all the wires, or tell me that the video card you're holding is a sound card, you should not have passed the computer hardware class requisite for your degree.
- grahamburger 10y agoWe probably hired ~7 altogether. Some were great, some mediocre as you'd expect. Honestly I don't know that they would have been any better at answering the questions you referenced, but I do think that on average they would have done better than others who applied but didn't have any secondary education. That indicates to me that the value of the ITT degree is >0. Whether or not the value of the degree is enough to make up for what they paid, I honestly don't know - although several of them had used military money to get the degree so they weren't really out much.
- walrus01 10y agoSounds like the very oldschool Novell "A+" training materials would have been a lot cheaper for them, and actually equipped them to identify fundamental pieces of x86/x86-64 hardware.