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Anecdote here, but I think it speaks to academia holding a privileged role in society and contributing little (or damage in this case) when I have met multiple
by Datenstrom 4y ago
Anecdote here, but I think it speaks to academia holding a privileged role in society and contributing little (or damage in this case) when I have met multiple people with degrees (but from a degree mill) who make > $200k as software engineers and can barely code fizz buzz and cannot even properly package a cli tool.
Although this is a specific problem with degree mills not representative of all schools.
- ClumsyPilot 4y agoThey are employed as software developers, it speaks to software developers holding a priviliged role in society. If the privilidge was in academia, they would have stayed where the privilidge is
- the_only_law 4y ago> Although this is a specific problem with degree mills not representative of all schools. Eh I’ve seen idiots with a 4 year degree from a state school.
- akhmatova 4y agoAnd I've seen idiots with a 4 year degree from your school.
- the_only_law 4y agoThat’s impressive given I never went.
- akhmatova 4y agoFrom your school of thought, shall we say. The singling out of state school graduates in that missive did seem rather strange (and contrary to observation).