The reason being that the best indicator for being good at x is being good at x. The secondary reason being that now we don’t have to hire an army of interviewers for all the applications coming in.
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The underdog working at McDonalds 60 hours per week and dealing with their kids homework in the evenings is going to fare poorly against the person that stayed at their parents house for the prior 2 weeks teaching themselves enough about coding. They'll start off ahead.
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It’s not time bound. They both will have to learn the prerequisite material one way or another.
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Those who can already “do it,” do they need the school?
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We teach it first. Read the tweet again.
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I assume you will continue to make interviewing part of your curriculum, right? Obviously that is still a key life and professional skill to score a good job after graduating— the success metric for both
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If you'd like to talk about rubrics, time boxes, information density, and other ways to maintain fidelity/consistency and fairness on those tryouts, we've been working on this problem for the last few years. Love your mission and happy to share what we've learned.
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This sounds like going from strength to strength (in other news, it's so much fun watching this whole thing come to life)
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Awesome. I guess this could be a much better proxy for intent and quality. Hard to fake unlike mere conversations.
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Please be careful when determining "the best".
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Good move!
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The education policy wonks I know are extremely cynical. This, by contrast, is very heartening. Big win for neurodiversity and real (consequentialist) meritocracy in your program. If only there was a way to package good pedegogy such that it wouldn’t trigger legacy educators...
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Bravo
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We'll be running sessions at multiple times throughout the day to accommodate different time zones and schedules.
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While they can be flawed and not scale well, interviews can give the disadvantaged a chance to prove themselves. An interviewer can get a gut feeling what an underdog can achieve and give them a chance. You've proven this works over and over.
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I’m with Justin. A combination would be good.
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As we have been planning out this switch, we have cases where there will still be interviews. The idea is that any edge cases or students that might be on the bubble will still get an interview.
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Just know that navigating the White world is very intimidating for people of color. We are outsiders. Even as an attorney, it’s nerve wracking b/c of white supremacy. How will you judge them against the more confident?
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