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Re:The software industry's greatest sin: hiring by solveit on Thursday April 09, 2020 @10:52PM (#22829520)
> They would rather higher someone provably less qualified from a "top school" than someone else.

Is this true? I can see this being the result of poorly implemented hiring processes, but I can't see this being the explicit goal at a reasonable company doing reasonable things.

Re:The software industry's greatest sin: hiring by Drew_ on Friday April 10, 2020 @10:21AM (#22833282)
"Provably less qualified" means a cheaper hire so yeah many reasonable companies would choose that option. It's good to remember that you can easily be overqualified.