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> Don't hire for a fancy degree.

There are some companied coming to my college for hiring. The first criteria they put was 70% aggregate marks (60% for some companies).

I have seen people who doesn’t know how to write even a small program getting hired, while people with good programming skills are not even eligible to attend the interview.

Going through 200-300 candidates in an interview might be a tedious job, I am not sure. What other choice do they have?

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Had a coworker from a university, didn't even know how to write a while loop.

He didn't last long to say the least.

Of course we will never know, if he could have been a good programmer or not, but it was baffling to see people fresh out of uni with zero knowledge.

I think the idea is that the "smart" person will be able to learn what they need to on the job quicker. The person with lower grades may be a better developer but right now of school I think most employees are hiring based on potential and culture fit vs actually development ability.

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