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0 pointsSV_BubbleTime10mo ago0 comments

Soon?

I hire people now and where they went to school means little to me. The first priority is “can they do the work?” which is a niche programming. After that is established, I barely take note of school.

I don’t personally count a CS degree as an indication the person is a good programmer, or thinks logically, or has good work ethic.

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ozim10mo ago

Problem is you most likely don’t have that big operation.

For company I work for we hire 1 dev per year and I believe last year we did not even hire a single person.

So I do have time to check up the candidate do 3 rounds each 1 hr so that candidates can see what company are we and what person is the candidate. We also are small company so we don’t get that many applicants anyway.

I cannot imagine how it goes when someone needs to hire 20 devs in one quarter. Especially for a company that is any way known and they can get 1000CVs for a single position. They need to filter somehow.

betterThanTexas10mo ago

You could just as easily filter by having a github repo. It doesn't even need to be active or very full. Hell, that would also filter out a lot of people with college degrees! Might even save you time.

In my experience, only very large and bureaucratic institutions (governments, schools) really demand degrees and certifications.

651010mo ago

HR seems a lot like real estate appraisal as~in appraisers know nothing about construction.

One could in theory establish the value of a thing or person by comparing it with similar things but if everyone does that the process becomes senseless.

If a working car is worth 5000, the same car from the same year with a defect that costs 1000 to fix should be worth 4000. If the repair costs 6000 there is no car.

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