Employers should ask job applicants to send in their CVs without their degree or educational institution listed—just their skills. They could start doing that now.https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1272805907366281217 …
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Things are already heading this way in Silicon Valley. Employers have found that degrees are a weak predictor of technical ability, and increasingly ignore them in favor of coding tests and looking at applicants' published open-source code.
Plus new organizations like Lambda School, which focus just on teaching programming without the country club aspects of college, are big engines of social mobility. In fact Quillette should write something about Lambda. They're right up your alley.
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Is reddit the arbiter of truth now?
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Please do Claire
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I met a hedge fund manager for Lazard by chance, we got coffee, he enjoyed my thought process on investing and invited me to NYC to interview with Lazard to come work for him. The black manager who interviewed me questioned why I didn’t have Ivy League education. I didn’t get it
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