A new report shows that, even after businesses announce dropping college degree requirements for jobs, most hire college graduates anyway.

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 😄

  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Y’all keep asking that. Yes, this was a while ago. Did they completely start over from scratch with 8? Otherwise, the clusterfuck is only growing.

    • tsonfeir@lemm.eeEnglish
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      9 months ago

      I think it would be easier for you to give me an idea of the clusterfuck you have experienced and I can let you know if that cluster is still fucking.

      What I do know, is that it is significantly better. Nullable types, multi-catch, typed properties, arrow functions, etc.

      • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 months ago

        I’m not going to dig up decades-old code for you to pick over - but I do recall that the labyrinthian and ever-increasingly complex and buggy behavior of the multitudinous builtins was an undending pain in the ass.

        • tsonfeir@lemm.eeEnglish
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          9 months ago

          I was just wondering if you had anything off the top of your head. Any language can be spaghetti if you make it spaghetti. 🤷‍♂️

                • tsonfeir@lemm.eeEnglish
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                  9 months ago

                  Using them incorrectly, would be incorrect. Without an example, it’s hard to tell.

                  But, pretty much everyone was doing the web “wrong” back in the day. Server-side html generation? Gag me. Or worse, inserting PHP into html?! Shudder. But that’s how it was for many backed languages.

                  IMO, nowadays, if it’s not a reactive js front end using the backend as an API, it’s doing it wrong. But I’m sure in 10 years we will all be laughing at how seriously we were taking JavaScript.

                  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                    9 months ago

                    It makes me shudder to think how the modern web is just treating browsers as JavaScript application environments. Converting a little backend load into a massive frontend headache is the exact opposite of where we thought we were headed twenty years ago.