École 42, a free, teacher-less university schooling programmers (2017)

Re:École 42, a free, teacher-less university schooling progr... by JPLeRouzic on Thursday October 11, 2018 @05:31AM (#18192029)

I was surprised to learn that main technical companies in France do not really care for most French university exact kind of diplomas, when they care for specific diplomas it is from a reduced set of organizations, and they pay well in that case.

For French universities, what they care for is the level of the diploma (graduate/master/phd) but frankly they often do not care about the diploma itself.

I have seen PhD people been recruited at a lower pay than engineers that graduated from Supelec for example.

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Re:École 42, a free, teacher-less university schooling progr... by bsaul on Thursday October 11, 2018 @07:18AM (#18192503)

yeap. This is due to the way students are selected after high school. engineering schools are much difficult to enter than universities ( because universities in france theorically don’t have the right to select first year students based on grades... yeah i know...)

So, the most valued way to do research in france is actually to first do one of those highly competitive schools first, then go to university for a phd.

But culturally, companies pay a lot more attention to the kind of engineering school you’ve been to than to your phd.

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