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Maybe a lot of startups also need to realize that an enthusiastic person with years of experience and an incomplete degree is better than most college graduates
by patryn20 20y ago
Maybe a lot of startups also need to realize that an enthusiastic person with years of experience and an incomplete degree is better than most college graduates with no real-world experience.
Seriously. The amount of degree snobbery in these startups founded by Stanford (and other top-level school) graduates is ridiculous. They are turning down tons of great developers everyday, most likely.
- gyro_robo 20y agoIt's one of those silver lining things. You end up doing your own start-up instead, which is usually what you preferred anyway. I wonder how many top developers are vanishing from the workforce because their start-up succeeded. A year or three of hard work and then retirement. Or they end up owning/running some other business, where they aren't using their most highly developed skill, programming.
- zeph 20y agoThey could also deal with learning that if top hackers wanted to work for mostly equity, they'd be doing their own thing and taking 100% I'm not saying that equity compensation isn't worth considering, just that for every startup that flips and pays out a nice chunk, there are plenty that don't.