Palantir Thinks College Might Be a Waste. So It's Hiring High-School Grads
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Re: Palantir Thinks College Might Be a Waste. So It's Hiring High-School Grads
#22My company has exclusively hired interns out of high school, including myself, since the mid 2000s. Every single hire was an intern first, either as a junior or senior in HS. The board is now 2/3rds former interns (I'm one of them), 1/3rds original founders. It works extremely well. Any high school AP CS teacher we ask is delighted to send us their best students. We basically get to interview for 3-5 years during sum…
So you get 3-5 years of unpaid labor out of every employee first? Radical man
Re: Palantir Thinks College Might Be a Waste. So It's Hiring High-School Grads
#23There really needs to be a trade school for software engineering. Not just a short boot camp, either. A rigorous 4 year degree that focuses on industry relevant skills and hands-on projects. The biggest reason I got my 1st job out of college at Cloudflare was because I worked on a lot of personal projects and self learned Go and got experience with Postgres, Redis, and basic frontend. These things were not, or barely…
Are trade schools four years now? When I was pursuing auto tech it was a two year program. I thought the benefit of vocational programs was the ability to be compressed because they don’t include the breadth of topics of a full undergraduate degree.
Re: Palantir Thinks College Might Be a Waste. So It's Hiring High-School Grads
#24Highly intelligent kids at 18 are ready for the real world. Its a waste of time to make them memorize random subjects
If "memorizing random subjects" is all college is to you, or all learning is to you, then yeah, probably is a waste of time.
Re: Palantir Thinks College Might Be a Waste. So It's Hiring High-School Grads
#25Highly intelligent kids at 18 are ready for the real world. Its a waste of time to make them memorize random subjects
Waste of time for who? The corporation?
I suppose if all you are interested in are productive slaves, I can see why skipping education would be seductive.
Re: Palantir Thinks College Might Be a Waste. So It's Hiring High-School Grads
#26Highly intelligent kids at 18 are ready for the real world. Its a waste of time to make them memorize random subjects
It’s hard to be ready for a world you do not understand, and the world is a lot more than engineering or any other single subject.
Re: Palantir Thinks College Might Be a Waste. So It's Hiring High-School Grads
#27There really needs to be a trade school for software engineering. Not just a short boot camp, either. A rigorous 4 year degree that focuses on industry relevant skills and hands-on projects. The biggest reason I got my 1st job out of college at Cloudflare was because I worked on a lot of personal projects and self learned Go and got experience with Postgres, Redis, and basic frontend. These things were not, or barely…
Switzerland has this and for basically every other job as well. Apprenticeships are very common here, I did mine as a "programmer"
Re: Palantir Thinks College Might Be a Waste. So It's Hiring High-School Grads
#28This is basically taking options on human beings.
Re: Palantir Thinks College Might Be a Waste. So It's Hiring High-School Grads
#29Highly intelligent kids at 18 are ready for the real world. Its a waste of time to make them memorize random subjects
Intelligent kids at 18 are easier to indoctrinate.
Corporations love that.
Re: Palantir Thinks College Might Be a Waste. So It's Hiring High-School Grads
#30Highly intelligent kids at 18 are ready for the real world. Its a waste of time to make them memorize random subjects
Waste of time for who? The corporation? I suppose if all you are interested in are productive slaves, I can see why skipping education would be seductive.
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