Re:Startup Nation? Entrepreneurs Still Toil in Macron's France
by presscast on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @05:16AM
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>I have mixed feelings about the grandes ecoles.
To be fair, so do I, and I think you make a good point. The profile you can expect from a GE is:
- Extremely well-learned. They know a lot of stuff.
- Solutions implemented by GE engineeres will be principled, rather than ad-hoc.
- Not self-starters. They very much have an employee mindset.
And to be faire, there are plenty of outstanding employees (not to mention freelancers or entrepreneurs) who haven't gone through a Grande École.
Let me put it another way: you may not need a GE-graduate to build the next iPod, but you certainly need them for the next EuroTunnel.
Re:Startup Nation? Entrepreneurs Still Toil in Macron's France
by thatfrenchguy on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @09:24PM
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"Put another way, people who don’t care about prestige and having a super broad education don’t go there, and in our field I tink a ton of super talented people fit that description."
But just like Americans go to ranked universities, as a student you learn how to play the game and go to the best (fit) one you can enter.
But I tink that’s really what it is. The best engineers I have seen didn’t care for ‘burning’ years of their life in half military schools or old institutions, they went directly to CS courses to get a diploma faster and go abroad or start their own project.
Put another way, people who don’t care about prestige and having a super broad education don’t go there, and in our field I tink a ton of super talented people fit that description.