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That only makes sense if the goal of college and education is pure learning but we all know it's not. Learning is part of it for sure but Companies use college
by irjustin 6y ago
That only makes sense if the goal of college and education is pure learning but we all know it's not.
Learning is part of it for sure but Companies use college as a filter is another.
Until jobs are unnecessary there's going to be this tug between learning and performing that's never going to good for either.
All I'm saying is the answer is never so simple.
- thwarted 6y agoCompanies use college as a filter because it's difficult to assess proficiency during an interview and they'd like some way to cull the wheat from the chaff, and avoid wasting time talking to and hiring charlatans and posers. Meanwhile, if you ask google-style brain-teasers during interviews (which can have a legit purpose, but it's become a cliché), people complain about that. On the third hand, if you ask candidates do actual assess-able work during an interview, the extremes are "white board coding" and "take home programming problems", people balk at whatever you do for that too. None of these are necessarily good, nor necessarily better than the others. HN is lousy with complaints about all the different ways to filter and assess candidates.
- peterwoerner 6y agoSure all the systems suck currently (except hire by internal reference, that one works great). Just because all the systems suck doesn't mean that something better might be possible. And part of finding the something better is understanding what doesn't work about the current systems.
- eru 6y agoCompanies use university as a filter for long-term conformity. That's much more pronounced in non-programming jobs, of course. For many white collar jobs you just need any kind of degree, doesn't matter too much in what.