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@Snooder said:@DrakeSmith said:I can understand having a degree being a filter to indicate that some knowledge is present in a job candidate, but where you went to school shouldn't matter (meeting some kind of accreditation possibly notwithstanding).I think Scalia explained it best:@Scalia said:“I’m going to be picking from the law schools that basically are the
hardest to get into. They admit the best and the brightest, and they may
not teach very well, but you can’t make a sow’s ear out of a silk
purse. If they come in the best and the brightest, they’re probably
going to leave the best and the brightest, OK?”Let's be honest here, even if they have the same amount of knowledge, the guy who went to ITT Tech for an associates in programming is unlikely to be as bright as the guy who got a comp sci degree from Stanford. And probably not as self-motivated. Sure, there are exceptions, but in a group of 1,000 ITT Tech grads, you'll find maybe 1 who is the same caliber as the average Stanford grad. While in a group of 1,000 Stanford grads, most of them will be either above or only slightly below the average. So if you are trying to hire a really high quality applicant, do you want to wade through 999 shit candidates for that one diamond in the rough, or just grab the first Stanford grad and save yourself the trouble?
That's a bit different - you're talking a tech school versus a university. The difference in competency between a state university ABET accredited school graduates and private university graduates is going to be much closer. Also, programming is not something that can be taught to everyone - there has to be some natural knack or talent there in the first place. In the interest of making money, however, most schools push anybody through at least the undergrad level of programming/comp sci, and as such there is a big problem in the real world of finding graduates (regardless of prestige of the school) who can actually write a program instead of arguing all day about why they think the simple company CRUD app should be done in LISP, *nix, and NoSQL since it's more elegant.