US colleges struggling with low enrollment are closing at increasing rate (2019)

Re:US colleges struggling with low enrollment are closing at... by goatinaboat on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @05:17AM (#22043433)

Well, yes, of course it is. If someone graduated from Oxford or Harvard then the reputation will follow them for the rest of their lives. It’s bizarre really but it’s also so normal that no one ever stops to question it. Same with some companies, e.g Google, they are 100,000 people now, very far from an elite, but work there even for a few months and you will be an ex-Googler for the rest of your life.

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Re:US colleges struggling with low enrollment are closing at... by akhilcacharya on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @10:56AM (#22045961)

Is it like that for other FANG companies? Which ones constitute being an “elite”?

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Re:US colleges struggling with low enrollment are closing at... by goatinaboat on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @01:40AM (#22052179)

Maybe Netflix? The others are just on a level with IBM or HP or MS or whoever now. Big tech companies staffed with average engineers. They are coasting on reputations earned when they were just a few hundred of the best engineers.

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Re:US colleges struggling with low enrollment are closing at... by mav3rick on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @04:41AM (#22052927)

Google Facebook Netflix.

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Re:US colleges struggling with low enrollment are closing at... by akhilcacharya on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @09:53AM (#22054619)

Why isn’t there an A represented here?

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Re:US colleges struggling with low enrollment are closing at... by mav3rick on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @12:35PM (#22056239)

Doesn't carry the same weight IMO.

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Re:US colleges struggling with low enrollment are closing at... by akhilcacharya on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @12:52PM (#22056438)

Why?

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Re:US colleges struggling with low enrollment are closing at... by mav3rick on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @02:21PM (#22057485)

Don't know. But you can get better opportunities everywhere with G on your resume over Amazon. Amazon also pays way less and has worse perks in everyway. Google was known to be a great place to work. That legend carries on amongst non tech people.

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Re:US colleges struggling with low enrollment are closing at... by akhilcacharya on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @03:40PM (#22058249)

Are you saying amazonians are inferior or something? Sounds out of touch and insulting to me.

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