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Re:The software industry's greatest sin: hiring by deepGem on Friday April 10, 2020 @07:14AM (#22831844)
The university obsession is not unique to US. It's true in India as well. If you are not from the elite institutions, you won't get past any hiring scanners of top tech companies. You'll still get a job, not the best paying one though.
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Re:The software industry's greatest sin: hiring by cies on Friday April 10, 2020 @08:28AM (#22832336)
It's common to all developing nations, and the US (which is both a developing nation and a developed nation in one).
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Re:The software industry's greatest sin: hiring by ativzzz on Friday April 10, 2020 @12:28PM (#22834607)
It's common to all nations, period.
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Re:The software industry's greatest sin: hiring by cies on Sunday April 12, 2020 @12:40PM (#22849334)
It's a heck of a lot less common in Scandinavian countries, or even a large part of (Eastern-) Europe. But yeah, no facts, just an opinion i guess
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Re:The software industry's greatest sin: hiring by yakireev on Saturday April 11, 2020 @06:43AM (#22840972)
For the record: not to all nations. In Russia, a really cool technical university (Bauman's, PhysTech, some faculitis of MGU) will give you some advantage in the early stages of your IT career, but not that much.

Source: am a dropout of a shitty university, still have no degree. It does not bother HRs, as far as I could see so far.

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Re:The software industry's greatest sin: hiring by indigochill on Saturday April 11, 2020 @02:06PM (#22843082)
Also anecdotally I haven't noticed it in Iceland. I've been part of a number of hiring processes here and although the presence or absence of education has of course been a factor, where that education happened has been totally irrelevant.
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