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Repeat after me: Education is not just about acquiring skillsets for jobs - Signed every technical employee that didn't apply "Reproductive cycle of frog" at t

• Spivak 3y ago
  Yeah, it's also for drinking, finding a husband, teaching you about variable interest rates, putting you in the social circles of people above your class and/or potential employers, and drinking. I would (and have done so) take a HS grad who taught themselves to code as a hobby over a fresh CS grad 8 days a week. If you want to be an academic and get into certain fields of research, then yeah college is for you, but any profession where education matters does their own testing a certification because they too know that undergrad is a joke. And to get out ahead of it, I graduated with two degrees, a 3.9 GPA, and no debt so I'm someone who has every reason to gas up college as totally worth it because I benefited from the faux prestige.
  • 908B64B197 3y ago
    > take a HS grad who taught themselves to code as a hobby over a fresh CS grad 8 days a week. And he'll write you a function where the week does have 8 days! In all seriousness, this is great if you can get a good hire at that level who is motivated and cheap enough employees that it's worth it to spend a lot of time coaching him. But unless you're shipping low complexity CRUD apps or are in a very low cost location, it's generally much more cost-effective to hire from serious CS programs.