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I would bet significant amounts of money that if you looked at people based on their in-job performance blinded to background you'd find insignificant contribut
by jaggederest 9y ago
I would bet significant amounts of money that if you looked at people based on their in-job performance blinded to background you'd find insignificant contributions from education.
Not interviewing, I would bet that people from top-tier schools interview very well, as I think Triplebyte discussed the other day. I'm talking about actual bottom-line performance in the job, which in my experience shows little correlation with school or even undergrad degree for people with any experience at all.
- atom-morgan 9y agoRight. The only reason I didn't go to Georgia Tech is because I didn't' live in Georgia at the time so I would have had to pay out of state tuition. But since then, I've had the opportunity to work with graduates from Georgia Tech. I was expecting to be humbled by their technical skills when in reality, they're just like any other programmer from any other school I've worked with.
- home_boi 9y agoI can see this being true if the people work at the same company (and already passed the same filter). I doubt it would be true over the entire university CS populations. If the only thing you know about two applicants is their university, then the student from a top tier university will on average perform much better than the student from a low tier university.
- jaggederest 9y agoIf the only thing you know about two applicants is their university, you literally don't know anything about them and need to start over. I'm like 99% sure it's zero information. Most hiring processes don't falsify the null hypothesis :P