David Wright wrote: > On Tue 19 Oct 2021 at 06:41:14 (-0700), Peter Ehlert wrote: > > On 10/19/21 6:08 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > It's getting towards off-topic, but I can confirm that just > > > because a person is working on a CS master's degree, that > > > doesn't mean they have any degree of competence. > > > > > > There is a major university here in the Boston area where the CS > > > undergrads are consistently better than the graduate students. > > > My company gets many of both interviewing for temporary positions. > > > The undergrads tend to be clever, curious, and ready to learn; > > > the grad students are frequently (not always) prone to making up > > > fantasy answers rather than admitting that they don't know > > > something. > > That can be caused by selection bias: you're offering something > attractive to the brighter students at undergraduate level; by the > time those brighter students have graduated, they may already be > networking with a wider geographical range of institutions offering > something more permanent.
I actually fear that the selection bias is in a different place: the undergrads are the product of a competitive academic process; the grad students appear to have been selected for ability to pay. -dsr-
