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Schooling might not work so well as qualification, but take care not to trivialize the problem. You can't really figure out how good someone is until you've wor
by DaniFong 18y ago
Schooling might not work so well as qualification, but take care not to trivialize the problem. You can't really figure out how good someone is until you've worked with them, unless they have a long string of accomplishments. Schooling might be a little above noise, but at least it functions as a fairly reliable minimum bar.
- swombat 18y agoI disagree. I work with a brilliant coder who dropped out of high school.
- DaniFong 18y agoI dropped out of highschool too; my point is that a degree in a technical discipline, from a tough school, will filter out many people who are incapable. It's the low bar to jump over. But by no means will all of the brilliant people have degrees, nor even decent looking credentials, on paper.
- Rexxar 18y ago(A ⇒ B) ⇏ (¬A ⇒ ¬B)
- jcromartie 18y agoBased on the deluge of resumes I've seen coming into tech shops lately, the bar set by college degrees is so low that you need to dig to find it.
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- gaius 18y agoThat is why there is the notion of league tables for colleges. My friends with MBAs say quite plainly that unless an MBA is from a "top 25" school, it simply isn't worth doing or having.
- aswanson 18y agoThat leads me to believe it is a bullshit field of study altogether, if the only metric of worth is the school name.
- gaius 18y agoCS graduate from MIT or Podunk U?
- jcromartie 18y agoWell, can they code or not?