Who would you hire?

[philiprohv]

This logic doesn’t work in reality. I have worked with excellent developers who graduated with solid First Class degrees (between 4.6 and 4.91) and I have worked with equally excellent developers with degrees between 3.0 and 3.8. There’s no difference. In fact the devs themselves don’t even recognize the GPA as a metric worth considering or comparing. I also certainly don’t. Being able to manipulate Laplace Transforms and being able to initiate/engineer/close out a development project are completely unrelated.

In fact i’ve been in a situation where the talent needed for a project just got into 100 level. He was given the job and executed brilliantly. I agree with @MrASulaiman 100%. The aptitude and acumen needed for development is not conferred by a university degree.

[ukay]

@Uduak

First of all, lets define a graduate.

A graduate is anyone who received a university degree (regardless of class) no more, no less.
Being a graduate speaks nothing as to one’s aptitude or skills, and it is known the world over that just being a graduate (whether from Harvard, MIT etc) does not equip anyone with the skills needed to advance in the outside world.

@Uduak

because the graduate has a history of excellence and personal capacity in a regulated environment.

That’s hasty generalization, in my opinion. It only proves he excelled in academics (assuming there were no shady dealings).

@Uduak

That is what that dropout will never be able to exhibit except he has singularly initiated/engineered/closed out a project which can be equated to 10yrs of engineering studies in a university of which his performance on that project must amount to a weighted 4.91.

Going by this, we should strip most billionaires of their wealth seeing as they did not deserve it.
Oya, Gates, Zuck & all of you money-miss-roads line up here

[Nwabu]

@xolubi ain’t no investor who is an angel.

[Freshboi_Ekundayo]

Sprinkles Angel Dust…