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Re:What It Takes to Hire 10 Employees in San Francisco by p1esk on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @04:52PM (#20699838)
Part of the value a good school provides is learning how to get along with teammates, during many class projects one has to do to graduate from a good CS program.

Re passion: you need a lot more of that to be "constantly learning and solving problems" for 4 years, rather than for 3 months.

What do you think people do in college? Party non-stop?

Re:What It Takes to Hire 10 Employees in San Francisco by potta_coffee on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @05:56PM (#20700409)
Learning to get along with teammates can happen in many different environments. I learned those things from sports, working construction, military experience, and a few other places.
Re:What It Takes to Hire 10 Employees in San Francisco by asdfman123 on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @06:29PM (#20700713)
Also I think the formal education system weeds out people with major personality problems. People who have trouble with authority or showing up to places in time don't graduate.
Re:What It Takes to Hire 10 Employees in San Francisco by mieseratte on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @07:33PM (#20701102)
Oddly all of my worst coworkers had degrees. The folks who would bullshit their way through life, never really do work, expect their coworkers would pickup the slack.

Most of the self-taught or folks with blue collar or military background have been the best. Hungry and resilient. Strange crowd at times, but great people.

Re:What It Takes to Hire 10 Employees in San Francisco by torgian on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @10:24PM (#20702080)
Yeah we can be a weird bunch ;)
Re:What It Takes to Hire 10 Employees in San Francisco by maxaf on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @04:58PM (#20699883)
> What do you think people do in college? Party non-stop?

Yes, that's exactly what they do.

Re:What It Takes to Hire 10 Employees in San Francisco by commandlinefan on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @05:31PM (#20700168)
Nobody parties harder than CS majors.