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I don't buy a lot of this analysis. >This week, for instance, Google — despite probably being the most progressive or Silicon Valley company, nevertheless fire
by Imnimo 2y ago
I don't buy a lot of this analysis.
>This week, for instance, Google — despite probably being the most progressive or Silicon Valley company, nevertheless fired dozens of employees involved in pro-Palestine/anti-Israel protests that resemble those on university campuses.
I find it extremely hard to believe that Google is going to start not wanting to hire MIT grads because MIT has a protest encampment. This sort of thing might make sense to someone with a political axe to grind, but it strikes me as completely out of touch with reality.
I interview a lot of candidates for highly technical positions. I cannot imagine a frame of mind where I would worry that someone with a Harvard degree is "More likely to hold strong political opinions that will distract from their work". Even if you believe this is somehow unique to graduates of private universities, Google fired 28 people over protests. Out of nearly 200k. There's just no possibility that worrying about this is justified.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> hard to believe that Google is going to start not wanting to hire MIT grads because MIT has a protest encampment There was a time when Google wouldn't consider a candidate if they weren't from MIT. The loss of that monopoly is the point. You aren't disadvantaged going to MIT today relative to a few decades ago. You're just not as relatively advantaged as you once were.
- Imnimo 2y agoI'm extremely skeptical that this shift has anything to do with protest encampments and coddling concerns.
- wredue 2y agoIt has everything to do with explosive growth in IT jobs, definitely nowhere near enough MIT grads to fill probably just googles growth, plus other things, none of which has anything to do with alt-right conspiracy theorist Nate silver claims.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> skeptical that this shift has anything to do with protest encampments and coddling concerns I am as well. I'm less sceptical of (a) the partisan shift in the value of elite education and (b) the effect per se.
- skybrian 2y agoGoogle only hired from a single university? It seems unlikely, even at the beginning. Maybe it's an exaggeration of the story that they only hired from Ivy League schools.
- relaxing 2y agoYou guys, Stanford is right there.
- paulpauper 2y agoYou're just not as relatively advantaged as you once were. I disagree. A falling acceptance rate suggests it's more elite, not less.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> A falling acceptance rate suggests it's more elite Applications have grown faster than population for decades [1]. Proxying selectiveness with acceptance rates is just marketing. [1] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/04/09/a-majority-of-u-s-colleges-admit-most-students-who-apply/ https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/04/09/a-majorit...
- bugglebeetle 2y agoThese kinds of think pieces make more sense when you understand them as advertisements that someone is an unscrupulous flack who will toe the establishment line for a paycheck. They’re not intended to be persuasive or really make so much sense, so much as to say “I’ll gladly take money to spout whatever nonsense is needed to make your views seem credible or popular.”
- baking 2y agoThere has been a lot of talk in the financial press in the last week about not hiring recent grads from schools that don't respond to anti-semitism. Since these are considered (without a whole lot of evidence) to be the same schools with protests, there is at least some basis for it. Whether anything comes of it, we will see.
- bdjsiqoocwk 2y agoCoordinated by Israel, I guarantee.