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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      8 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.

        • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          8 months ago

          It’s sacrificing efficiency on the frontend for the backend. It makes the backend easier to test, while making the frontend more complex. It significantly jacks up requirements for the clients while reducing them for the host.

          You backend people are forgetting that there are devices on the other end that need to process and render this bullshit. It sells more new iPhones, though, so who the fuck cares?

            • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              8 months ago

              My point is that the JavaScript is inherently inefficient.

              The possibility that you might suck less than someone else doesn’t fix that fact, or the fact that the modern web can bring a ten-year-old tablet to its knees.

                • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                  8 months ago

                  And both are complete clusterfucks, so it’s not that surprising.

                  But at this point it’s literally just a case of “old man yells at cloud.”