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I’m not sure where you are, but in Denmark this is absolutely not true as most companies and organisations don’t even go over your resume if you don’t have a de
by moksly 7y ago
I’m not sure where you are, but in Denmark this is absolutely not true as most companies and organisations don’t even go over your resume if you don’t have a degree.
I know this isn’t popular on HN, and maybe things are very different in places where education isn’t free, but I’m fairly certain we aren’t the only country to do this.
The jobs themselves don’t usually need much CS knowledge, as you point out, but the degree is an entry point because it gives employers a certain form of safety. I know, I know the HN mantra of “weeeell you can get a CS degree and suck”, but the reason practices are like this in my region is because the companies who followed it did better than those who didn’t.
- onlyrealcuzzo 7y agoCan you show me a double-blind controlled trial of companies that interviewed only CS grads vs anyone? I'm pretty sure such a study does not exist. So I'm pretty sure you can't make claims like that with any confidence. There is MOUNTAINS of research at Google which cannot be shared externally that shows -- despite all of our efforts -- we are hardly better at selecting candidates through interviews than flipping a coin. There's also a ton of research by Amos Tversky at the Israeli Air Force that suggests similarly. That's where Google got the idea to try to measure this, and how we got our "strange" interview process.
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- scarface74 7y agoGuess what? Not every company needs smart people(tm). The level of complexity of software at Google is completely different than your standard enterprise developer - the jobs most people have.
- acchow 7y ago"but the reason practices are like this in my region is because the companies who followed it did better than those who didn’t" Except that this practice will be dropped in the next few decades in many parts of the world, particularly in the tech industry.