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Re:American Employers Are Hung Up on Hiring PhDs by x0x0 on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @04:58PM (#19505956)
I'm a hiring manager who interviews a lot.

In my experience, high performance in difficult degrees at good schools are a very strong indicator of future success.

We find gems outside the above profile, but it holds true even across the people we've hired from code schools.

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Re:American Employers Are Hung Up on Hiring PhDs by pmiller2 on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @09:44PM (#19508334)
Didn’t Google find no useful correlation between either GPA or school attended and job performance? I’m not sure if they categorized people by “easy” or “hard” degrees.
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Re:American Employers Are Hung Up on Hiring PhDs by ylmm on Thursday March 28, 2019 @11:55AM (#19513418)
What defines a "useful" correlation?
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Re:American Employers Are Hung Up on Hiring PhDs by pmiller2 on Thursday March 28, 2019 @12:03PM (#19513528)
Strong enough to bother trying to figure out if there’s a causal relationship.
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Re:American Employers Are Hung Up on Hiring PhDs by watwut on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @05:57PM (#19506536)
Isn't it that high performance in something difficult predict future success? That is my theory ar least, that phd requires people to do something difficult and at times demotivating in long time span which means that successfull phd are going to be not just be like that initially, but also have an experience with it.
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Re:American Employers Are Hung Up on Hiring PhDs by yowlingcat on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @09:58PM (#19508442)
Mind if I ask which one, or if it's at least one of FAANG?
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Re:American Employers Are Hung Up on Hiring PhDs by x0x0 on Thursday March 28, 2019 @03:08AM (#19509937)
I keep anonymous on here, sorry. People are unable/unwilling to not take any random thing I say as an official position of my company.

I don't work for a FAANG.

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