You know poor candidates can go to great schools, they can even get doctorates. They can also be useless, and the set of skills that make you useful are not necessarily the set that you get from an advanced degree.
Also FWIW the part about "dropped out of PhD a plus" is intentionally taken out of context. The full context from the link
BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent (PhD or dropped out of PhD a plus)
After reading that I am very leery of taking anything else he said at face value. This is a target piece that is clearly putting the headline above the truth.
No, but it happens, in any school at any degree level there are people who "pass" who shouldn't. Even in my lowly engineering school ( graduating class of Computer Engineers was maybe 30 ) there were a number of people who should not have been given a degree, but since they fulfilled the basic requirements they were. Those were the individuals who were looking for jobs after graduation. A majority of the people had jobs well before their senior year.
I am not saying this guy is a slouch who got what he had coming to him, I don't know him. I am saying that no compelling argument was made that this article was anything more then conjecture.
Also FWIW the part about "dropped out of PhD a plus" is intentionally taken out of context. The full context from the link
After reading that I am very leery of taking anything else he said at face value. This is a target piece that is clearly putting the headline above the truth.