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“You must be one of those non-indoctrinated types I wouldn’t hire.”

You would be wrong. I laugh at those simpletons with their 4-year “college degrees” who think they have mastered the universe. Call me when you have 20+ years experience and could teach PhDs.

Snooty types like you are middle managers types, nothing ever more. We like to call them “useful idiots”, but I usually terminate them as they dismiss talent based on the wrong assumption that college is something to behold, and anyone dismissing the talent the company needs is defeating their own purpose.

College is something you do when you are 22. I am looking for accomplished engineers, not recent graduates. So, when someone like you says candidates must have a college degree I have to assume you don’t know the difference between accomplished engineers and recent graduates. I don’t care what someone did when they were 22. I want to know what they have accomplished since.

I laugh at those simpletons with their 4-year “college degrees” who think they have mastered the universe. Call me when you have 20+ years experience and could teach PhDs.

College is a baseline requirement just like a high school diploma. Experience remains the differentiator among those with degrees. By your logic you would accept High School dropouts as suitable candidates for a position.

Snooty types like you are middle managers types, nothing ever more. We like to call them “useful idiots”, but I usually terminate them as they dismiss talent based on the wrong assumption that college is something to behold, and anyone dismissing the talent the company needs is defeating their own purpose.

Snooty? Because I did the work you and others refuse to do? Judging from your emotionally driven statements I highly doubt you have ever been in a managerial position let alone hired or terminated anyone.

College is something you do when you are 22.

Really? That's why most Graduate and PhD candidates are in the 30's but I wouldn't expect you to know that.

You see, I look far beyond the degree when judging a candidate however I must set baseline requirements. Your emotional reaction to my stating the obvious and missing the fact that this was just a baseline illustrates that you are one of those whose resume would end up in the trash.