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While I’m kind of with you that there are added barriers that don’t seem to make too much sense there’s a very real purpose to making you take something like a
by 52-6F-62 5y ago
While I’m kind of with you that there are added barriers that don’t seem to make too much sense there’s a very real purpose to making you take something like a literature course while studying physics (for example).
Those added requirements are intended to make you a rounded, thinking human—not just a short circuit to more money and a comfortable life.
In my experience employers are caring less and less about a university degree.
What employers do love is pedigree in workshops. “We’re an ex- Googler, ex- Amazon, ex- Palantir, ex- Goldman Sachs” suddenly means the company is inexplicably inherently more valuable and trustworthy. Is it?
- fallingknife 5y agoAfter 4 years of taking classes outside my areas of interest in HS, there was little benefit to doing so for another 4 years in college. Pedigree is exactly the same type of empty credential as a college degree, though, and employers like it for the same reason. It allows the person who makes the inevitable bad hire to deflect blame when the "why did you hire this person?" question gets asked. Hire someone from Podunk State University, or Another Failed Startup and it will look like you have bad judgment. Hire someone from Harvard / Google, then it just gets chalked up to bad luck.