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Likewise my experience hiring people. I was lead and I screen people with masters. They all failed. I swear they went back to school for master because they co

Likewise my experience hiring people. I was lead and I screen people with masters. They all failed. I swear they went back to school for master because they couldn't get a job. One of them was an Indian dude. So what's your focus? "Database" Neat what's your favorite relational database? "All of them." .... Ok, what do you think about NoSQL? "They're neat." What's your favorite? "All of them." In my head, I'm like what the fuck. Did this guy tried ALL of the NoSQL and all of the relational database? Anyway, the dude was pretty bad, no real skills just a piece of paper. Couldn't even solve simple program puzzles (they're just Project Euler problems).

azth 13y ago
I met another guy like this (who happened to be Indian too), when I was interning at a big 3-letter named company. So, what are you focusing on for your grad studies? "Quantum computing" Oh neat, what exactly are you doing? "Some quantum stuff, blah blah blah" I don't remember the exact answer, it was a while ago. But it was clearly just some buzz words that did not contain any substance; and that he had no idea what was going on. There is also another Indian guy at the company I presently work for. Fresh grad with an MS degree. We were writing a small internal web service, and he was all over the place about how "we must use a NoSQL data store", because "scalability", and "flexible and dynamic, no schema" etc. Thankfully, the final call was not his, and we went with a plain RDBMS -- which naturally suited our purpose pretty well. We had no need for NoSQL just for the sake of using it. Disclaimer, I hold an MS degree. I was privileged enough to get admitted to a top Canadian school with an excellent CS program. Almost all the people I met during my stay there were brilliant, and definitely did not go back to grad school because they were not able to get a job. Many of them did internships at top companies; and a couple of them even came back from the industry 20+ years later, because they wanted to work on something different. So definitely do not clump all MS/PhD degree holders together. I think the author here is making the classic correlation vs causation mistake.
- itsdrewmiller 13y ago
  The author answered a related question on Quora: http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2013/05/09/how-different-is-a-b-s-in-computer-science-from-an-m-s-when-it-comes-to-recruiting/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2013/05/09/how-different-i... Sounds like we aren't all crazy. :-) Also, the other posts on the blog (at least that I have read so far) are definitely worth your time if you liked this one.

azth 13y ago

I met another guy like this (who happened to be Indian too), when I was interning at a big 3-letter named company. So, what are you focusing on for your grad studies? "Quantum computing" Oh neat, what exactly are you doing? "Some quantum stuff, blah blah blah" I don't remember the exact answer, it was a while ago. But it was clearly just some buzz words that did not contain any substance; and that he had no idea what was going on. There is also another Indian guy at the company I presently work for. Fresh grad with an MS degree. We were writing a small internal web service, and he was all over the place about how "we must use a NoSQL data store", because "scalability", and "flexible and dynamic, no schema" etc. Thankfully, the final call was not his, and we went with a plain RDBMS -- which naturally suited our purpose pretty well. We had no need for NoSQL just for the sake of using it. Disclaimer, I hold an MS degree. I was privileged enough to get admitted to a top Canadian school with an excellent CS program. Almost all the people I met during my stay there were brilliant, and definitely did not go back to grad school because they were not able to get a job. Many of them did internships at top companies; and a couple of them even came back from the industry 20+ years later, because they wanted to work on something different. So definitely do not clump all MS/PhD degree holders together. I think the author here is making the classic correlation vs causation mistake.

itsdrewmiller 13y ago
The author answered a related question on Quora: http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2013/05/09/how-different-is-a-b-s-in-computer-science-from-an-m-s-when-it-comes-to-recruiting/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2013/05/09/how-different-i... Sounds like we aren't all crazy. :-) Also, the other posts on the blog (at least that I have read so far) are definitely worth your time if you liked this one.