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Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College (www.msn.com)
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[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I've been on both sides of the interview table, and yeah it's not hard to figure out who lives up to their CV. But unfortunately, that giant pool of useless grads clogs up the already horrible HR pipeline. A lot of good people are turned away before an engineer gets to talk to them.

[–] Bell@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

So maybe AI will finally convince HR to charge their hiring practices?

[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

I work in manufacturing and we have multiple engineers on staff. I'm not really sure why because we should have competent maintenance people doing those jobs instead. They have zero trouble shooting skill. The first thing they do is open their laptops. They don't physically look at anything to try to figure out issues. They spend hours trying to figure out basic problems, it's ridiculous. At the last place I worked operators would be fixing most of these things.