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Recursion

(56,582 posts) Fri Jul 29, 2016, 11:14 AM Jul 2016

Rant: nobody, anywhere, needs a bachelor's degree to be a web programmer

Sorry, just going through the job postings on craigslist and appalled at how often I see that. I mean, I have a bachelor's so it's fine for me, but there's literally no need to use that to weed people out. A web programmer needs a two-month training program.

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Rant: nobody, anywhere, needs a bachelor's degree to be a web programmer (Original Post) Recursion Jul 2016 OP

It's worse tthan that. astral Jul 2016 #1

astral

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1. It's worse tthan that.

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Sat Jul 30, 2016, 12:09 PM

Jul 2016

You need a high school diploma to get a job as a housekeeper. It's a weeding tool to just pick from the most ambitious applicants, when they'll have too many to pick from anyway.

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