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> But that's not the scariest thing. The scary thing is that if it's a STEM field these students go on to get jobs in which they have no competence. This is truly catastrophic if you want software that works and buildings that don't collapse.

And also why we can’t trust a degree to show competence, leaving it to companies to figure out with LONNGG multi-part interviews



Businesses are still making out like bandits now that the cost of learning how to do the job has been offloaded onto kids.


Some do summer hires - a sort of 90-day interview - in their Junior year. Much better signal-to-noise.




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