I think the real problem is that corporations and HR departments have outsourced filtering candidates to universities. Universities were never designed for job

I think the real problem is that corporations and HR departments have outsourced filtering candidates to universities. Universities were never designed for job training, and obviously we're seeing the consequences of that. I got a 4 year CS degree from a good university, and it was good, but I have to admit I came out of it with a lot of knowledge that I'm really unlikely to use in the real world (how to write a hash map, for instance), while being completely clueless on things that are extremely useful for actual real world work (how to use distributed version control, or how to write shell scripts). I also have to say, I've been on the end where we interview people and look through stacks of resumes, and I can't say I've ever actually ever cared about the "education" part unless it's really unusual (IE, very advanced degree, or a degree in a field that isn't CS but might be highly relevant to what my company is doing) I think it's weird that vocational training is so looked down upon. Not everyone is really built to be a knowledge worker or a professor -- we still need plumbers! Also whatever happened to apprenticeships? It seems like all we have anymore are internships, but, at least from what I've seen interns are rarely given that much mentoring; it tends to be a lot more about toy-projects or "build a thing that would be nice to have but that we're not going to dedicate a full salaried engineers time to".