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To: throwback
Business executives say schools are hampered by overbearing bureaucracy and a focus on rote learning

I dealt with a programmer from China who had a masters in Computer Science yet couldn't understand relational data structures to save herself. The above statement fits her to a 'T'.

2 posted on 04/06/2011 9:01:21 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: dirtboy

yeah but chinese hackers are pretty darn good


4 posted on 04/06/2011 9:04:28 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: dirtboy

Same here. Some imports were very good, but we also had a woman from China with a Masters in CS that couldn’t make her own lunch. She needed help on every project, and invariably you ended up doing 90% of it yourself.


7 posted on 04/06/2011 9:07:24 AM PDT by throwback ( The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid)
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To: dirtboy

I could pretty much say the same about a lot of fresh American graduates I happen to interview.


8 posted on 04/06/2011 9:08:31 AM PDT by ravager
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To: dirtboy

Ha!

I know a Chinese PhD that is a DBA and he too can barely grasp SQL.


19 posted on 04/06/2011 9:42:27 AM PDT by TSgt (Colonel Allen West & Michele Bachman - 2012 POTUS Dream Team Ticket!)
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