Re: It takes all kinds...

Interesting thread:

Take a look in this weeks Business Week, the current unemployment rate for gen x Ivy's is running about 55%.

>> decompiled object code? You sure?

--GP

On 24 Jun 2003 19:07:56 -0700, pharfromhome_at_hotmail.com (Geomancer) wrote:

>> its somewhat similiar to the degrees from 'top schools'. there are quite a
>> few larger companies which are biased towards these degrees.
>
>Hi Ryan,
>
>Yes, it is true that an Ivy degree is valuable in the marketplace.
>Isn't that why kid's fight to get into Harvard and Yale and MIT?
>
>As for IT, some of the best Oracle people in the world come from MIT
>and West Point. They have AMAZING technical ability. I once saw an
>MIT grad decompile a part of the Oracle executable, make changes, and
>save a whole company from a disasterous Oracle bug.
>
>I think that many companies recruit from the Ivys because the school
>has pre-screened them the inteligence, persistence and hard work.
>Very few slackers (except maybe Dubya) get into Yale without tons of
>hard work and drive.
Received on Wed Jun 25 2003 - 00:09:34 CDT