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Google and
Google and

Apple rule out
Apple rule out

College degree
College degree

for
for

applying/hiring
applying/hiring
employees
employees

Google LLC, an American multinational technology Bock as quoted in the report said, "When you look at
company specializing in Internet-related services and people who don't go to school and make their way in
products, which includes online advertising the world, those are exceptional human beings. And
technologies, search engine, cloud computing, we should do everything we can to find those
software, and hardware and Apple, an American people."
multinational technology company that designs,
At Apple, the positions that do not need any degree
develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer
requirements include engineering project manager,
software, and online services NO LONGER REQUIRE A
Business Traveler Specialist, design and verification
DEGREE TO HIRE EMPLOYEES IN THEIR FIRM.
engineer and Apple Technical Specialist. Open
Even though in today's world, having a college degree positions at Google with no four-year degree
is of utmost importance and a degree is considered requirement include research scientist, UX engineer,
to be a milestone for a person, the two companies mechanical engineer, product marketing manager
are inclined towards hiring candidates whose and software engineer.
experience and skills best suit them for the job and
It?s not that college degrees are useless. For many
not their degree!
people, the university is the place where they acquire
Many companies still insist upon a degree in the first skills. But quality will always be preferred over
place and when the two of the biggest firms abandon quantity and if one has the talent, then it doesn't
the four-year degree as a qualification it gives a matter whether he/she has the degree, because at
chance to those successful applicants who do not the end of the day the companies will hire you if you
own a university degree. can add value to their firms. What a person knows is
more important than how they learned it, doesn't
Google acknowledged its importance a few years ago
matter if they are a recent college graduate or a
that college transcripts and test scores are worthless
self-taught individual.
predictors of job performance but still emphasized on
their employees to be a graduate. - Zoyena Ansari
Google's former SVP of People Operations Laszlo
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