>>12791862>We passed on plenty of candidates that had fine grades but obviously didn’t have the interestthe mindset is also important, something that really cant be teached in Uni, but that has to be developed gradually by working on your own, figuring stuff out and solving problems
>I’m gonna be elitist here and say that if you didn’t graduate from a top university(say top 20ish) the programs don’t do a very good job weeding people outhere in Germany Unis do very well with that, at least in engineering
my uni has about 50% dropout rate for the EE programme that i do
>There is a huge quality gap between a candidate from cal tech versus Ohio statewell here people from technical universities are typically all competent, even those that come from other institutions are solid
maybe US should attempt to be a bit more meritocratic in their education system
>That will get you to mediocreyes, most people like these just drop out or change their major
>But being good requires a depth of knowledge, intelligence and curiosity that someone who is just punching the clock will never getsure, but one can only bet how big the benefit in productivity and overall work output really is
>plenty of companies make a business out of herding mediocre engineerswell not everyone can be a super high motivated genius that is also sociable and always productive
even a mediocre engineer will pull the cart, metaphorically speaking
