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Sometimes I wonder if signaliing is the real 'value' they offer that people seem to want to work for, the problem isn't as much the education as it is.. everyth
by oneplane 7y ago
Sometimes I wonder if signaliing is the real 'value' they offer that people seem to want to work for, the problem isn't as much the education as it is.. everything else.
- chii 7y agoknowledge is knowledge, no matter where you obtained it. However, the connections you make during college is sometimes quite important, as they are the windows of opportunity that aren't available to the non-connected. E.g., if you have a friend in the same class, then they are more likely to refer you to their company if you are in need of a job (later in life). Or if they are already rich and are investors, you are more likely to be considered to be confounders or business partners.
- GoblinSlayer 7y agoShouldn't you learn economics instead of CS if you want to run business?
- pinkfoot 7y agoSteve Jobs studied English. Ran multiple companies.
- GoblinSlayer 7y agoConsider many people here, who regularly complain about incompetent management.
- jbc1 7y agoIf you want to run an already very large business your best bet is to go in to management consulting. In that case what you study is less important than getting top grades at a top school and interviewing like a champ. If you want to run a business that isn't but has the potential to maybe be very large then easiest way to do that is to build your own and CS has a very low bar for entrepreneurial activity. If you just want to run any business then no degree necessary. Just work in food service and treat it like a career. Maybe do a bookkeeping course. You'll get to manage a restaurant eventually.
- GoblinSlayer 7y agoSure, one can run business incompetently, but is it desirable?
- goatinaboat 7y agoWell, yes, of course it is. If someone graduated from Oxford or Harvard then the reputation will follow them for the rest of their lives. It’s bizarre really but it’s also so normal that no one ever stops to question it. Same with some companies, e.g Google, they are 100,000 people now, very far from an elite, but work there even for a few months and you will be an ex-Googler for the rest of your life.
- akhilcacharya 7y agoIs it like that for other FANG companies? Which ones constitute being an “elite”?
- goatinaboat 7y agoMaybe Netflix? The others are just on a level with IBM or HP or MS or whoever now. Big tech companies staffed with average engineers. They are coasting on reputations earned when they were just a few hundred of the best engineers.
- mav3rick 7y agoGoogle Facebook Netflix.
- akhilcacharya 7y agoWhy isn’t there an A represented here?
- mav3rick 7y agoDoesn't carry the same weight IMO.
- akhilcacharya 7y agoWhy?
- ericmay 7y agoYou should check out the book The Case Against Education if you want to pull on that thread a little more with signaling. It's a compelling book for me.