Unfortunately this would never work in companies that hire foreign workers. As part of the H1B process, the government wants to verify that the position actually requires an "advanced degree." The way they check that is by looking at whether the other people currently in that position have college degrees. The company's HR department has to provide all of that as evidence (among many other things) when it files for an H1B petition for the foreign worker.
I'm also questioning whether the article's claim could actually be proven with data. On the one hand I want to believe that credentials do in fact make no difference. On the other hand, it doesn't ring true when I think about my own experiences.
I'm the founder of a local not-for-profit community service organization. When I was still actively involved as president, we were very ambitious with our goals and therefore sought to recruit high quality people to join the board of directors. We interviewed many people, and the thing is, there was a stark difference between people who had degrees from the local Cal State college and those who graduated from the better schools in the Pacific West (University of Washington, UCLA, Berkeley, etc.). Over the course of three years, I interacted with both groups of people and found out that those who went to good schools actually had a superior breadth of knowledge and a much wider perspective in things they dealt with. They always had great ideas and often times took the initiative to make those happen. In contrast, those who went to the local Cal State college (Cal State Long Beach) were just lame. They were nice people, but they were generally unmotivated, bland, and never thorough with the things they did.
I'm also questioning whether the article's claim could actually be proven with data. On the one hand I want to believe that credentials do in fact make no difference. On the other hand, it doesn't ring true when I think about my own experiences.
I'm the founder of a local not-for-profit community service organization. When I was still actively involved as president, we were very ambitious with our goals and therefore sought to recruit high quality people to join the board of directors. We interviewed many people, and the thing is, there was a stark difference between people who had degrees from the local Cal State college and those who graduated from the better schools in the Pacific West (University of Washington, UCLA, Berkeley, etc.). Over the course of three years, I interacted with both groups of people and found out that those who went to good schools actually had a superior breadth of knowledge and a much wider perspective in things they dealt with. They always had great ideas and often times took the initiative to make those happen. In contrast, those who went to the local Cal State college (Cal State Long Beach) were just lame. They were nice people, but they were generally unmotivated, bland, and never thorough with the things they did.