Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job?

Re:Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job? by snowwrestler on Friday April 16, 2021 @02:17AM (#26830208)

Anecdotally this is a popular idea, but it is surprisingly poorly supported by data. I did a deep dive on this a couple years ago, and there is actually little difference between early-career employment prospects for STEM and non-STEM bachelor degree holders.

I did not look at bachelors vs coding camp certificate.

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Re:Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job? by the_only_law on Friday April 16, 2021 @05:52AM (#26831798)

I wonder how much of that is due to a big chunk of the STEM undergrad degrees (mainly science) being not so useful. Don’t think I’ve ever seen a scientist role requiring anything less than a PhD (at least nothing paying more then $40k a year) I find it hard to believe though, that the employment prospects for someone with an B.Eng. or B.S. CS are equally as bad for as someone with a B.A. in English or Psychology.

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Re:Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job? by fighterpilot on Friday April 16, 2021 @04:42AM (#26831254)

I think that's true for all schools below the top-10/top-20 (which covers the large majority of people, myself included).

For the elite schools, a STEM degree does confer advantage over non-STEM degrees.

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