Why I’m Not Looking to Hire Computer-Science Majors • Hacker News Board

Re: Why I’m Not Looking to Hire Computer-Science Majors

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Post by ashleyp » Sun, Aug 30, 2015, 11:34 PM UTC

"A serious alternative to the $100,000 four-year college degree wouldn’t even need to be accredited—it would merely need to teach students the skills that startups are desperate for, and that universities couldn’t care less about."

- because everyone should be training to work for a startup?

- why not hire passionate people and train them if university trains them badly? Sounds like people are trying to find perfect developers and of course the competition for those is huge.

Re: Why I’m Not Looking to Hire Computer-Science Majors

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Post by PhilWright » Mon, Aug 31, 2015, 2:22 AM UTC

Don't you just hate those selfish Universities that won't churn out enough people with exactly the skills needed by start-ups so the start-ups can then pay them below the going rate they could have achieved otherwise.

Anyone would think it was the students paying for the education. An education that allowed them to maximum their income over a career than spans a decades. Instead the students should be paying to get the skills needed to help start-ups make their founders rich.

Re: Why I’m Not Looking to Hire Computer-Science Majors

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Post by doki_pen » Mon, Aug 31, 2015, 12:18 PM UTC

seibelj wrote: post #7

Wow what a ridiculous article. For starters, only an extremely small slice of fresh-out-of-college developers would get a 120k salary and 300k in bonus and options. This is still absurdly high, if it's even true (and not exaggerated for the purpose of getting an article into the WSJ). I've noticed a sharp uptick in CS grads, and it seems starting salaries are actually nosing downwards. Or at least that's the case her…

It's probably hand wavy to mobilize wsj readers to pass immigration reform. There is a concerted effort to reduce tech pay.