yes, this is absolutely startling: For people who attended top schools, completing Udacity or Coursera courses didn’t appear to matter. (...) Moreover, intervi

yes, this is absolutely startling: For people who attended top schools, completing Udacity or Coursera courses didn’t appear to matter. (...) Moreover, interviewees who attended top schools performed significantly worse than interviewees who had not attended top schools but HAD taken a Udacity or Coursera course. Possible explanation might be that people going through regular degree typically spread themselves thin over many subjects (digital electronics, compiler design, OS theory, networking etc) while MOOC folks sharply focuses on exactly the things for interviews (i.e. popular algorithms). Its like interval training for one specific purpose vs long regime for fully rounded health. The problem here is not academic system but how we measure performance in interviews. I highly doubt if results would be same if interviewers started asking questions from all these different subjects instead of just cute algorithm puzzles.