Re:How my company is lowering the bar to increase diversity
by acctjustforyou on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @05:07PM
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"There exists a young man with no legs who has a stellar collegiate wrestling record.
There also exists an athlete in the most prestigious wrestling program in the country who always loses because he never makes weight, and when he does make weight, he gets defeated in seconds.
Therefore I can confidently conclude that 'number of limbs' has no correlation whatsoever to wrestling ability."
Hmmm...
Re:How my company is lowering the bar to increase diversity
by dclowd9901 on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @09:03PM
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Sounds like you get it.
> I completely agree. I’ve interviewed people from MIT who weren’t familiar with a hash table and the best software developer I’ve worked with never went to college. The CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, didn’t go to a top CS school. However, it’s still the case that college and experience is an imperfect signal of ability.
In other words: Here's all of these great reasons I've found not to trust someone's schooling as a good indicator of their ability, but I'm going to use it anyway.
OP is what's wrong with tech hiring.