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College decade ago, your perception of her 5 years ago.

Dont get me wrong, you may be right, but those above are not reliable

like... you can change your whole life within 5 years, wow.

>If colleges don't matter, I'm not sure why so many successful companies paid attention during their starts. Its a pretty good metric to estimate intelligence, not knowledge IMO.

my personal opinion is that anything below top e.g top3 is more or less similar mess. I know grads across various topX levels and it never felt like a school was important factor. Top people are top

>She was a scrum master for 3 years at another company. One day I asked her what the term scrum stood for? I wasn't in the field at all so I had no idea. But it was an obvious question IMO. She didn't know. Next day I looked it up and learned it's just a rugby term. It came up a month later, and she still didn't know. I cared enough to look it up. She didn't. And it's her job. Now she's at Google. If you think that's not a bad sign, you might work at Google too.

Haha, actually not getting familiar with scrum seems like a good choice :) devs hate it with passion



She was very familiar with it, and it was her job. My point was, she only cared about the time wasting parts you hate. In general, she had little actual depth of knowledge or curiosity.


Most people don't change that much.




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