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I'm from a non US country, so the concept of a Harvard is foreign to me as well. And yes, I've also worked for selective employers where maths degrees mattered
by samvher 3y ago
I'm from a non US country, so the concept of a Harvard is foreign to me as well. And yes, I've also worked for selective employers where maths degrees mattered a lot. It never bothered me.
Not sure what you're trying to say. Hiring people based on individual merit and skills is not the same thing as hiring people based on an exclusive network. The Harvard employer favored Harvard folks over others who otherwise had the same (or better) skills.
- blitzar 3y agoI doubt anyone anywhere ever has been the "best" hire - even / especially the greatest hires of all time, there was someone who had the same (or better) skills. There are ~8 billion others, rounded to the nearest meaningful number ~8 billion people never saw the job ad or applied for it or were eligable because of the exclusive network of "countries". Unless there is an epidemic of Harvard Art Majors being made Head of Brain Surgery upon graduation on the back of their credentials, their merit and skill is still contributing something.
- samvher 3y agoI don't like the exclusive network of countries either... I guess we have different perceptions of what's fair/acceptable.
- earthboundkid 3y agoDon't worry, all your political leaders went to Harvard and the Kennedy School. :-)
- blitzar 3y agoI believe none of them have - they all went to Oxford / Cambridge, why would they step down to an inferior institution that would only hold them back in life?
- earthboundkid 3y agoFrancophone Africa is laughing at us in Sorbonne.
- blitzar 3y agoWhen the snow falls they're found in St. Moritz