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Re:What Golang Is and Is Not by Jtsummers on Sunday August 21, 2016 @01:28PM (#12331762)
Ouch. That quote is incredibly unkind to his colleagues. I remember back when Google practically required at least a masters degree for their new hires. Throwing out Georgia Tech grads with 4.0 GPAs and only a bachelors.

Guess they don't think so highly of their hires anymore.

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Re:What Golang Is and Is Not by snaky on Sunday August 21, 2016 @01:46PM (#12331841)
We are yet to be convinced a degree or GPA have any correlation with an actual abilities related to programming with regard to quality, performance, abstractions, languages, tools or anything.

By the way, http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/200732/google-admits-its-fam...

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