Here’s a Thing: There’s No Correlation Between a College Degree and Coding Ability

[Commentary] Mike Rosenbaum has a profound insight to share with tech companies, but he’s found them a hard sell. After wrapping up a stint as a White House economist under President Bill Clinton, Rosenbaum became a Harvard fellow and set about something that bugged him: Why should fancy degrees make him a better candidate for a programming job than others who lack the degrees but might be better coders? Rather than publish a paper on the topic, Rosenbaum started a business based on finding just those kinds of talented employees that hirers might overlook. The upshot: “We find no correlation between having a college degree and being a good software engineer,” he says.