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Because hiring is hard (and a time suck) and a degree from a good college happens to be a pretty good filter for whatever attribute makes a decent employee?
by xfax 13y ago
Because hiring is hard (and a time suck) and a degree from a good college happens to be a pretty good filter for whatever attribute makes a decent employee?
- headShrinker 13y agoI was alway fond of googles attempt to thin the heard { the first 10-digit prime in consecutive digits of e }.com Someday I hope to use something like that for my startup.
- cschmidt 13y agoThis is one of those puzzles that just begs you to use Mathematica: In[20]:= Select[Map[FromDigits, Partition[RealDigits[N[E, 500], 10][[1]], 10, 1]], PrimeQ][[1]] Out[20]= 7427466391
- 001sky 13y agorelated: http://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftware/default.asp?cmd=show&ixPost=160966&ixReplies=23 http://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftware/default.asp?cmd=s...
- plorkyeran 13y agoIt's certainly a filter, but is there any real evidence it's a good filter? I would guess that is, but I really don't have much to back that guess up with.
- 001sky 13y agoIts cheap/cost effective is I guess why its used. Its also a demonstrable CYA. People are incredulous that a person can FUBAR shit with an degree from XYZ.
- auctiontheory 13y agoExactly. The "no one ever got fired for buying IBM" principle.
- csomar 13y agoI guess it's a good filter when justifying your decision to your boss (unless you are the boss). e.g. hey boss, they are all MIT graduates