What I find ridiculous in this article is how bad and social focused Google hiring has become. Google regularly declines to hire people with pHds or decades of

What I find ridiculous in this article is how bad and social focused Google hiring has become. Google regularly declines to hire people with pHds or decades of real dev experience for developer jobs, yet hires a person after one "full stack developer course?" Reading between the lines we can see how this really works: female: +1, ivy school: +1, young: +1, etc. On the topic of udacity, I knew from the beginning these claims that they were going to replace traditional education were equally ridiculous. Their courses might get some people jobs they can't handle, and those organizations will subsequently fail at their attempts to develop products. I see stupid stuff all day long. My previous employer hired (IMO) unqualified engineers for (IMO) social reasons. Those people did not commit anything resembling code for months, but of course social politics of the workplace prevented them from being fired or anyone saying anything about their non-work. Traditional education is traditional. This means everything else has been tried. Everything. MOOC's are not dissimilar to paper based correspondence work that has been around somewhere on the planet for probably hundreds of years. When it gets down to reality, the surviving companies are not going to say, "you watches some videos for a few months, welcome aboard." Those companies that do will slowly die off.