Google Has a Plan to Disrupt the College Degree

[CopiousX]

They're going to disrupt salaries while they're at it too

This might be the end goal. They honestly can't rationalize paying these new people 70k for a certificate gig. They may be trying to cut overhead costs at the Google campus too.




Yall might just be the first crop of 30k software "engineer" brehs

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

Like a well rounded person?

You can study that for free.......

 

[Wildin]

For who?

Black people please dont fall for the Okee doke

Has nothing to do with being black.

If you go to school for the right job you'll be interning, doing apprenticeships and actually working the job prior to graduating. And with that resource either the places you are already putting time in at and showing your face at will keep you around whether or not you finish.

That shouldn't be the goal of going to college (to not finish) but unless you need a certification or license which requires hours and accreditation you should be getting that experience during college and most companies or businesses will pay for it.

I know because it happened to me I finished but I work with a lot of people who didn't or are are just shy and have been working in the same field at the same place for 10-20 years.

It dont make sense to go to school for **something** for like 4 years then graduate and play "lets see what happens!" "I hope someone chooses me!" Within your sophomore or junior year you should've been shaking hands, exchanging numbers, exploring the field, experiencing the field.

When i did look for another job in my field I didnt look online, I texted and called people in my field and had interviews and offers in days.

 

[beenz]

I think this is a great idea. I went to college, and I fully acknowledge that its a racket and a scheme. that shyt does NOT prepare most people to work in the real world.

 

[Raw Lyrics]

ok but how many companies will take this as a replacement for a degree?

a lot of the point of hiring college graduates for companies is that they know that you were dedicated to finishing up school and they think you'll be a good worker bee.

You’re assuming that employers aren’t aware that Colleges do very little in the way of preparing students for the workforce.

Even in the legal field, I train lawyers all day, because their law degree education didn’t teach them a God damn thing about operating within a court room.

And I only have an associates.

 

[BushidoBrown]

YES
FUKK THOSE SCHOOLS

i'm ready to see them crash and burn like the housing bubble a decade ago
the cost of "education" is borderline criminal

 

[Conan]

I think this is a great idea. I went to college, and I fully acknowledge that its a racket and a scheme. that shyt does NOT prepare most people to work in the real world.

Come on. College is overpriced but this isn't true

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Guarantee you no google executive will allow their kids to replace a college degree with this.

This

• Secure Da Bag
• May 29, 2019

 

[Prodyson]

They also staff some of the most talented Engineers and Business minds...from...UNIVERSITIES !

School has it's place, joe schmo off the street isn't going to waltz into googles Quantum Computing division
and work alongside PHD's and Graduate students with cutting edge understanding of the field.

You forget that companies like Google, Yahoo, Sun Microsystems, Uber, Skype etc. are all staffed up
from world class schools like Standford & Cal.


I'm saying !
If brehs don't really know the history of Stanford,MIT, CalTech, Berkeley and so on.
They really don't understand WHAT they're saying.

Trust & Believe they're still hiring from colleges and specifically they're hiring some
of the brightest minds they can get their hands on. That's why some of these
kids can bargain for damn near six figures OUT OF THE GATE !

I’d imagine part of the reason they do this is to get their hands on some of these kids even earlier. If google is “educating” them before they step foot on a campus, then they essentially have first dibs on them as they’ve already built up some rapport. Imagine thousands of the brightest minds coming to you before their competitors... and before the competitors even know they exist.

Obviously they would still be recruiting from colleges. I’m not even sure why people would act like that’s even a question. A large portion of the population won’t fall in line with this immediately for myriad reasons. College is too ingrained in our society. Rich people will be sending their kids to college for the foreseeable future because they have no incentive not to. They can afford it.

 

[Kenny West]

Damn...who thought a search engine company would be pulling shyt like this off one day

 

[Big Blue]

ok but how many companies will take this as a replacement for a degree?

a lot of the point of hiring college graduates for companies is that they know that you were dedicated to finishing up school and they think you'll be a good worker bee.

Exactly. There have already been courses like this for a while. As long as companies continue to value degrees this shyt is pointless.

 

[Prodyson]

Yeah I highly doubt this puts an end to college degrees. This is wishful thinking.

Second at many large companies the colleges and corporations work together in terms of the college setting up programs to funnel graduates to said company.

The company in turn sends money to the college for the programs or through a feeder systems encourages employees to go to said college for continuing education.

Its a symbiotic relationship between colleges and companies.

Finally there is too much money to be made by state and private colleges. There is also companies that make tons of money off of loans from private to federal loans. The federal loans are guaranteed to be backed by the government which means the large loan companies take no loss even if you as the one with the loan default.

Its a multi billion dollar business and the reason these politicians will never ever ever ever do an overall forgiveness program wiping out everyones debt (besides a few thousand here and there).

This is not how capitalism works. They don't get rid of shyt that makes folks money hand over fist.

The question then becomes, is it cheaper to do a program like this, or to continue doing those feeder programs? Because if this catches on, outside of programs with the best of the best (MIT, UC Berkeley, Stanford, etc.) they wouldn’t need those feeder programs anymore. They’d have they’re own. And if they can get a couple of these Certificates to be universally recognized, they’re gonna have candidates hand over fist for a fraction of the cost, with personal knowledge of their abilities. I bet you they have analytics built all in these programs assessing the potential of those who complete it.

 

[wastedmermaid]

Like a well rounded person?

Imo I don’t think I need to sit in a classroom studying a bunch of stuff that really has no practical value to your life for several years . You wanna be well rounded...travel,ready a book, pick up a hobbies.

 

[Originalman]

The question then becomes, is it cheaper to do a program like this, or to continue doing those feeder programs? Because if this catches on, outside of programs with the best of the best (MIT, UC Berkeley, Stanford, etc.) they wouldn’t need those feeder programs anymore. They’d have they’re own. And if they can get a couple of these Certificates to be universally recognized, they’re gonna have candidates hand over fist for a fraction of the cost, with personal knowledge of their abilities. I bet you they have analytics built all in these programs assessing the potential of those who complete it.

Breh it still ain't gonna change overall cause the people running the companies come from these same feeder schools.

Also like a poster said these companies still got PHD, Master degreed and etc folks working, running departments and R&D. They are not going to all of a sudden start hiring some joe blow with a 6 month cert fresh out of high school over some kats from a feeder school with multiple degrees.

Last the same board members who sit at these companies also sit on the board of these big name schools. As I mentioned it is a symbiotic relationship and a big money making hustle. Folks got to be living in a dream world if they think this is the end of big money college and student loans. We talking about a overall industry (colleges and loans) that makes profits in the 100s of billions a year.

Expecting overall college costs to go down is as crazy as expecting medical costs to go down. Or the costs of consumer products. It ain't happening.

 

[Ducktales]

I can make an argument that college is a pyramid scheme ....

Whatever that argument is I agree with you lol