If Google, Apple, Facebook et al.—which hire a lot from Harvard, Berkeley, CMU, Stanford, MIT etc—change their *own* hiring practices for technical/engineering roles, yeah that could disrupt the college degree (unlike offering a certificate which is fine but isn't disruptive).
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(I started as a self-taught technical person—tween coders of the world unite—, got a job, paid my own way through college/degree, worked professionally later so I'm not at all dismissive of that route but lol to disrupting the college degree until they start hiring differently).
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To finalize the point, more training is fine but there's decades of research that the (obvious) key problem in the US job market is *scarcity* of good, stable jobs across the education ladder. (Also always check where people who run these things send their own kids).
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Anyway, I really, really hope Google themselves and these 130 companies named actually hire the graduates of this program—and also hire more graduates of non-elite universities and other non-college-grads, too.
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"the journey to digital transformation" [vomits]
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The thing they don’t get is there is a difference between presenting information and educating. One is incredibly resource intensive and the other costs $240
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Good luck supplanting IIT
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Slightly ironically, it works because "working for Google" is itself a credential on par with all but the very top of CS-degrees. It works because it substitutes one credential for another. Q is what is the value of graduating this thing, then *not* landing a Google job?
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Other important Qs: If they do land Google jobs, what kind of jobs are they? What's their level of responsibility? Their pay? How quickly (if at all) do they rise?
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This is also my definition of a good college: one that would hire it's own grads for a TT role
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