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Comment by fastball

2 months ago

Previous employment isn't an "in-group", it's an endorsement of your skill (assuming your references pass muster).

it's the same endorsement of skill as a university diploma nowadays - not correlated in the slightest

surviving a startup says a lot more about skill than going through employee churn of some bigname corp

  • Personally I don't think it is the same as employment + reference. Imo it is fairly easy to game university and get a good degree from a "top" school without actually learning that much at all. Harder to get a good work reference if you don't deliver at your job.