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		gist on Nov 3, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tech firms shell out to hire and hoard talent > Google, Facebook and Amazon alone probably hire around 30% of all American computer-science undergraduates, reckons Roelof Botha of Sequoia, a venture-capital firm. What kind of bullshit is this? "Reckons Roelof Botha". Number coming out of his ass with no basis whatsoever. Not even a meaningless study to back it up.

acchow on Nov 3, 2016 | [–]

This article is of remarkably lower quality than is typical for the Economist.

temuze on Nov 3, 2016 | [–]

Maybe true at Stanford or a top school?

stale2002 on Nov 3, 2016 | [–]

Yeah, I went to CMU, and 30% sounds about right to me.

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