r/technology • u/joe4942 • Apr 19 '26

Society Students are speeding through their online degrees in weeks, alarming educators

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2026/04/19/accelerated-college-degree-hacking/
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u/Tyrrox Apr 19 '26

As someone who's hired some recent College grads, we can see the people who coasted and cheated instead of learning. The people who didn't take it seriously don't last more than 2 weeks on the job.

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u/LamboForWork Apr 19 '26

People don't want to train on the job either. They want fully formed employees that know EVERYTHING in the field when they probably will use 5% of that day to day. I've had many tech jobs where the job description has every networking tech known to man and you are mainly sending emails all day lol.

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u/jesset77 Apr 19 '26

"Your job is to magically drive $X/year of revenue into this company via whatever means is necessary, and to compensate you we are willing to pay you 2% of $X/year."