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We didn't actually take a college degree into consideration when hiring. I simply thought it would be nice to include, because some people do take college educ

• jmtame 18y ago
  I understand, in some cases it can be helpful. But the way you worded it, you dropped the college degree reference many times. I don't want to sound like a cynnical person when writing on this. I think it's cool that you published your results, I just felt like pointing out that it seemed like a lot of emphasis was put on college degrees as a qualifying factor. I would really like to hear about your reasoning for why you selected the applicants in the final round. Some possible things to consider writing about next time: Did they contribute to open source projects? If so, which ones? Did they write some cool apps in the past? If so, what were they? Do they have an interesting philosophy on life, code, or hackers? If so, what was it?