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Re:Jopwell (YC S15) Is Building the Missing “Pipeline” of Di... by justizin on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @04:43PM (#9893960)
> The latter will be better prepared to take on the challenges as a software engineer at most startups.

Are you sure? As a non-CS degree holding senior engineer who constantly has to tell recent grads very basic things that I taught myself in high school, I think this is the biggest and most problematic institutional bias.

It's essentially cutting people out of the industry at like 14 years old - an age at which it was explained to me that I wouldn't be able to afford college and would otherwise not get in without nearly perfect grades in classes that didn't stimulate me at all.

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Re:Jopwell (YC S15) Is Building the Missing “Pipeline” of Di... by ivankirigin on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @04:58PM (#9894040)
As I framed it, the former has less experience, not just no CS degree. I agree that experience means more than a degree. As someone at Dropbox (full of MIT alums) once told me: "just because you graduated from MIT doesn't mean you're good"
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