A person's educational credentials are not the only indicators of success, so we advanced our approach to hiring to focus on skills, experiences and potential
Translation: credentials are no longer proxies of actual skills. Unless you're talking about compliance. As hiring managers, we are on our own to find the few candidates who can actually think on their own and solve problems.
I'm not interested in social justice warriors or "inspirational" young kids. I prefer boring nerds or experienced, 50-year-old white guys who can figure out how to complete real work without being coddled and praised.
True, I only ask where candidates graduated simply so I know how much indoctrination they got and how potentially fucked up they are. Any degree a young person has is pretty useless. In fact, I prefer kids who didn't get brainwashed.
Interviewed someone with a Masters in co-sci and ~8 years experience. They were basically useless. I have no idea how they managed to get their last job. Im guessing it was a big enough company that they basically didn't really have to get anything done and could slip through the cracks without much notice.
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