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Vocational education vs. academic.

Basically you find a grad right now and make them do a coding test. Something is broken there.

A degree could include the vocational qualification as a 1 year study, but having the vocation qualification alone would save youngsters a lot of money and reduce the burden on hiring. You could even still interview coding questions but the application process can remove the spam/ai bullshit to some extent. "Can they code?" is answered.



And now you've moved the job of administering and evaluating coding tests to an organization that only does that.

Who would want to work at such a place? Why would I trust the opinions of people who work at such a place?


It is good enough for plumbing, bricklaying, food service etc. Why not coding.


I'm going to make the extremely controversial statement that writing software is a lot more difficult than all of those things.

I acknowledge that some feel their contributions are at that level, but that doesn't mean it's the norm.




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