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Re:Silicon Valley Asks Mostly for Developers with Degrees by mahyarm on Thursday March 31, 2016 @02:40AM (#11395409)
Big successful tech companies don't have this problem. Eng recruiting is it's own org, who works extensively with engineers and engineering managers.

Recruiters basically keep a database of engineers and contact them to get them into the typical interview funnel. Interviews are done by engineers and their managers only and then everyone gets together in a meeting soon after to give a hire/no hire. Then recruiters (and managers) attempt to close the interviewee. This has been my experience after interviewing at dozens of companies at various sizes, from small to huge.

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Re:Silicon Valley Asks Mostly for Developers with Degrees by marcus_holmes on Thursday March 31, 2016 @07:18AM (#11396307)
It's the pre-interview stage that usually fails to let non-degree-qualified candidates through. The list of people that engineering get to hear about are either already doing the exact same job somewhere else, or are degree qualified. Getting into that funnel with no degree is hard.
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