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It’s No Surprise That “Skills-Based” Hiring Has Not Worked (www.forbes.com)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by redfox@infosec.pub to c/technology@lemmy.world

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This article outlines an opinion that organizations either tried skills based hiring and reverted to degree required hiring because it was warranted, or they didn't adapt their process in spite of executive vision.

Since this article is non industry specific, what are your observations or opinions of the technology sector? What about the general business sector?

Should first world employees of businesses be required to obtain degrees if they reasonably expect a business related job?

Do college experiences and academic rigor reveal higher achieving employees?

Is undergraduate education a minimum standard for a more enlightened society? Or a way to hold separation between classes of people and status?

Is a masters degree the new way to differentiate yourself where the undergrad degree was before?

Edit: multiple typos, I guess that's proof that I should have done more college 😄

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[–] silverbax@lemmy.world 31 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Hiring devs with degrees does not guarantee anything quality about the software they write.

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

A degree for developer just means that they know how to learn.

I've seen some straight a solid developers come straight out of college enter the enterprise sector and bomb right out.

Why aren't you using Python, why aren't you using inheritance. They're walking into these places with 20-year-old code bases and nowhere near enough money to rewrite any of it.

And the problem is, even if they get the opportunity to rewrite it, they try so hard to optimize it and put so many little smart decisions in there that becomes very difficult to maintain.

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

As someone currently getting a degree (and therefore surrounded by soon-to-be devs with degrees), I couldn't agree more. The requirements to pass are so low that it means nothing.