This is completely false. I have no degree, and it’s not super difficult to get through the interview stage at google (depends on what part of the stack you’re aimed at, though). People went out of their way to say the degree has negligible weight.
YMMV. Personally I see people as their own greatest barrier for these sorts of things without firm evidence to the contrary.
Just a note, not trying to pick your anecdote, but the experience of something seemingly occuring frequently out of nowhere is exactly the baader-meinhof phenomenon. You’d need to demonstrate a causal link to firmly disprove it, which would assumably be difficult in this case.
Well, it’s hard to draw any conclusion about confirmation bias without understanding the first two questions :) but you’re right, this could be baader-meinhof phenomena at work.
In this case, it’s not clear who the fraudsters deceived. If it’s the advertisers, how do you demonstrate malice rather than, uhh, stupidity? If it’s the consumers, that just seems like effective adertising.
I guess, this is certainly colloquial fraud, but is there any evidence this could lead to a criminal suit?
I think there is (limited) semantic value to single page forms. They also encourage api first design. Is this always worth it? Certainly not. But it does have value.
While that may be true, the causal link between government spending and high prices is unclear. The vast majority of waste I see getting healthcare myself is the absolutely massive cost of dealing with insurance itself. This is an industry (billing!) that employs vast numbers of people. I think it’s much more likely the high costs are an effect of ludicrously poor price transparency and the unsustainable healthcare practices that this sustains. At worst, government regulation exacerbates this; I think you’d be hard pressed to demonstrate it’s the primary cause.
Either way, we need price transparency before people start acting rationally, and government regulation of irrational spending is going to be wasteful. Price transparency would make the promise of single payer (government) healthcare actually sustainable for a populace; without it, you’re just making the healthcare industry richer without actually providing a proportionate amount of care to the public.
I would not describe government as heavily involved in health care. The prices you see rising are from lack of meaningful competition and transparency allowing providers and insurance companies to dictate prices virtually arbitrarily and certainly irrationally to the consumer using the services.
Meanwhile, government is the only meaningful access many have to healthcare and education.
Well, average pay in SF is only high if you ignore the homeless person sleeping on your stoop. In that sense the job would be extremely rewarding compared to other parts of the country. If you only compare yourself to people in like jobs, that reward vanishes almost entirely for the average worker.
I actually intepreted that as the jobs require a very low level of skill and provide low compensation—exactly what you’d expect from making a job “blue collar”.
I wouldn’t even call it a blue collar job: the labor isn’t very intense, the pay is excellent, and it’s very stable; easily salariable compared to seasonal and contract work (though you can contract if you want).