Most people don’t finish online job applications

Re:Most people don’t finish online job applications by bumby on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @11:03AM (#33344785)

My experience is anecdotal as well, but it confirms your hunch about collegiate athletes. The have been the best performers, but it's a small sample size in my case. It would be interesting if there is a different correlation between sports (e.g., individual vs. team sports).

The main complaints I've heard about the prestigious institution hires are:

1) They tend to excel well when given a problem that can be solved with a rather templated approach, but tend to struggle more with poorly defined problems

2) They tend to have higher turnover, with the speculation that they jump ship as soon as a perceived higher status opportunity arises. Meaning, they start a lot of projects but don't see them to completion

I don't know if I've had enough experience with the differing groups to draw strong conclusions one way or another.

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Re:Most people don’t finish online job applications by 3pt14159 on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @05:08PM (#33349472)

My experience with the premier university grads is that they know the details really well. While a bootcamp trained dev can roll out features and tests for line of work crud APIs, they may not be able to handle the 5% of the job that requires deep knowledge of mathematics, internals, or similar type things. I don't think you need many of them on a team, but it's good to have them around to fill in where the technically strong, but less rigorously trained, may struggle.

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