Google, IBM, and Apple have stopped listing college degree requirements on their job descriptions, but everyone is missing the point when they say that this is some revolutionary, bold new direction in hiring. It’s not. These companies are just acknowledging explicitly what they (and most others) have done implicitly for years.
Those of us who realized this at an early age experienced a massively unfair advantage in our career, because we got to start at 16, 17, 18, and 19 instead of 24, 25, and 26. It is a shame though that so many people racked up 1.6 trillion dollars in total US student debt to check off an imaginary box.
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