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Re:New U.S. immigration rules spur more visa approvals for S... by hasty_pudding on Thursday December 28, 2023 @03:12PM (#38798022)
This is another dishonest talking point.

With most tech jobs if a person has a computer science background they have the skills.

The company is just lying to justify outsourcing.

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Re:New U.S. immigration rules spur more visa approvals for S... by FredPret on Thursday December 28, 2023 @08:29PM (#38800797)
Getting a degree simply indicates to the market that you have the ability to learn and the mental building blocks to start learning the ropes.

Until you do it, you don’t know how to do it. In other words, juniors fumble around and make lots of mistakes - that’s how they get good.

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Re:New U.S. immigration rules spur more visa approvals for S... by hasty_pudding on Friday December 29, 2023 @05:36AM (#38803598)
> simply indicates to the market that you have the ability to learn

I took networking, os, data structures, etc. in my degree.

It taught me a lot more than "how to learn".

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Re:New U.S. immigration rules spur more visa approvals for S... by FredPret on Friday December 29, 2023 @11:42AM (#38806956)
Looks like it hasn't even taught you that.
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