>Computer Science is not Software Engineering. A PhD does not translate to real world engineering skills. OP is not comparing a caltech grad to someone who con

>Computer Science is not Software Engineering. A PhD does not translate to real world engineering skills. OP is not comparing a caltech grad to someone who contributed to open source. OP is comparing caltech grads to someone who studied algorithm interviews. I agree. Degrees and accreditation are sort of gateway policies to conduct deliberate filtering and maintain a class based social hierarchy. There is some merit as it does take a brutal level of hard work and intelligence to get into caltech. However, algorithms are the exact same type of filter, both are pretty much divorced from any relationship to the job at hand.