Using International Students as Cash Cows Does No One Any Favours

Re:Using International Students as Cash Cows Does No One Any... by mmirate on Friday October 12, 2018 @06:19PM (#18205118)

This here is precisely the problem, and is also precisely why these types of students aren't mere "cash cows"; they're existential threats to engineering management's ability to hire people who can actually do what they claim to be able to do.

(And to engineers' ability to make to employers strong and credible claims about what they can do.)

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Re:Using International Students as Cash Cows Does No One Any... by wincy on Saturday October 13, 2018 @01:04AM (#18206524)

This seems good for me personally, I decided not to go to school and am about to start working in software for a Fortune 500 company. If degrees are seen as worthless, and other heuristics are used (such as the technical interview I participated in), I will have a good chance of being hireable in the future.

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Re:Using International Students as Cash Cows Does No One Any... by zwayhowder on Saturday October 13, 2018 @02:13AM (#18206692)

This was me for the last 20 years. Eventually my interests changed and I reached a point when I knew I needed to learn some things that for me an on campus MBA is the best way to learn.

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Re:Using International Students as Cash Cows Does No One Any... by mmirate on Saturday October 13, 2018 @08:21AM (#18207606)

Good for you, no good for people who wanted to take a structured+exhaustive approach to learning CS.

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Re:Using International Students as Cash Cows Does No One Any... by msie on Friday October 12, 2018 @07:54PM (#18205518)

I don't think so. If this is so widely-known then there will be some bias in selection of people for an interview. And after a phone screen it will be obvious if the candidate knows anything.

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