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Hiring is hard. Graduating from college is a clear indicator that someone was able to at least commit and follow through with something and should have at mini

• LatteLazy 6y ago
  Exactly. You pretty much know what you get when you hire a grad. And if it doesn't work out, you can understandably act surprised and say "I know, and he was from MIT too! If you break the mold and it works no one cares. If you break the mold and hire some guy without a degree, and it does wrong, you built your own gallows! Freakonomics referred to the Sheepskin effect: 80% of the benefits of getting a degree come from the last semester. Someone with 90% of a degree is worth only 20% more of the gain someone with that last 10% is.
  • tester34 6y ago
    >You pretty much know what you get when you hire a grad. I don't think so, seriously, unless it was top3 school in country then I think there can be very huge gap between grads.