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It's good to have a high bar. But it's dumb to use someone's academic achievements alone to measure whether they meet the bar or not.

• commandlinefan 8y ago
  > it's dumb to use someone's academic achievements alone I'm sure they don't - the author just seems a little touchy because he doesn't have a degree. I understand - I have a CS degree with a good GPA, but the school isn't all that impressive. I know it's cost me jobs (because they've told me). However, it's a pipe dream to think that there will ever come a time when degrees are irrelevant - unless human civilization changes a _lot_, academic credentials are going to get more important for programming work, not less, just as they are for every other field. As long as programming pays well and is the sort of work you can do sitting down in an air conditioned office while drinking coffee, it's going to attract a lot of applicants, and screeners are going to have to screen them. Love it or hate it, the easiest things a screener can look at that yield the best signal-to-noise ratio are academic pedigree and reputation of past employers. Since false positives are riskier than false negatives, they're being logical and reasonable.
  • AstralStorm 8y ago
    Are they riskier? The company risks, say, a month of trial time... They are riskier for recruiters who are enforcing artificial scarcity.