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Tech Job Interviews Are Out of Control
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It's not a litmus test, it's just a basic filter. You don't understand the time wasted (for both parties) when recruiters present "self starters" and "driven" and "passionate" candidates. It's not our goal to give people a chance, it's our goal to find a great fit for the position.
Let me rephrase, to make myself crystal clear, because you didn't get the tactful approach: that's a shitty filter. By excluding people without a degree, you're saying that ability to afford university for 4 years is more important than skill, experience, or knowledge.
It shows that you're ignorant. It shows that your company has a toxic workplace.
It's probably one of the dumbest flexes I've ever seen.
Wow I bet you're fun at parties
No, you're right. Being fun at a party of techbros is totally a sign of superiority and not at all a sign of sociopathy 🤮
Tbf you're probably not a terrible person, but that is a bad take. Rejecting someone based entirely on education, and not allowing for other factors (as is implied), is just bad for both your company and society.
Lol you talk as if I give a fuck
You talk like a bootlicker. At least I have a modicum of self-awareness.
You're offensive.
Only to fascists and bigots.
Shoo
Sorry for catching you in your hypocrisy? 🤷
How do you reconcile what you're saying here with your anti-billionaire stance on your other comments? Sometimes someone needs to hold up a mirror.
wtf you on about? you jumped in on a conversation with insults and idiocy. You have issues.
He's right; you can't be pro-paper ceiling and anti-elitist.
Degrees as a filter is useful due to the willful dismantling of our secondary education system, in order to gatekeep higher-paying jobs.
Rich elites want college to be too expensive or exclusive for regular people, so their rich kids who can go get to be first in line at jobs.
Rich, private high schools have advanced subjects like comp sci, pre-med tracks, pre- law, etc, while the people who can afford to send their kids there are lobbying state governments to cut public school funding and programs.
I did 3 years of comp sci, including 600-level courses in OS design, architecture, and even Assembly. Literally nothing in those courses is useful to my IT career. Everything useful that I learned before working in IT, that was IT-related, I learned independently from my college courswork.
We both have issues. But as I said, at least I have a modicum of self-awareness.
I don't expect you to go back and check, but I think you know that's not how the hostility started.
Anyways, I'll lay off now unless you ask a question or say something wildly out of line, but I'd like to part with this: your take here doesn't seem to align with other things you've said in your (public) comment history on your (public) profile. We're all forced to play the capitalist game, but you're not going to be rewarded for this kind of devotion to your boss.