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The systemic issue in my experience is the extraordinary flood of poor-to-mediocre candidates you get for entry-level roles... I personally really hate college
by bpodgursky 5y ago
The systemic issue in my experience is the extraordinary flood of poor-to-mediocre candidates you get for entry-level roles...
I personally really hate college-gating admissions and would rather legally forbid that kind of discrimination (as far as, not allowing college to be on a resume). But it's impossible to deny that it helps solve a real filtering problem tech companies face.
- advael 5y agoIt may have at one point, but Goodhart's Law is always looming in the background, waiting to fuck with any filter you care to come up with. In the last few generations, the shift to college being viewed (and subsidized) as an effectively-required vocational training program has diminished the quality of education in degree programs expected to turn out workers while pushing a lot of people through who would not otherwise have been interested in higher education. It's no longer a very effective filter for quality applicants
- CTDOCodebases 5y agoCould the solution to this be some type of exam/testing process similar to a bar exam that lawyers are obliged to pass before becoming a lawyer? By this I mean an applicant funded testing (not educating) process operated by a respected institution that can be used as a heuristic for competency.
- alice-i-cecile 5y agoThat was TripleByte's whole idea. They recently pivoted though :(