> I've learned so many more things in university. I'm struggling to remember the last time I did something challenging at any company.
That's his point. You ostensibly learn things useless for the job so you can prove to your employer your capacity to learn and be somewhere on time and meet the deadlines reasonably well.
In the real job you learn a lot, of things that are incredibly easy when compared to useless stuff you've learned in the university. So easy in fact that you might not even notice them.
Throughout my whole career maybe two courses from the university were directly useful. And yet when I was getting employed in a corporation I was asked for a proof that I completed higher education, despite the fact that nothing on the job required even a shred of knowledge from there but required a lot of knowledge I acquired later. Which they already tested me on before the point they asked for my diploma.
That's his point. You ostensibly learn things useless for the job so you can prove to your employer your capacity to learn and be somewhere on time and meet the deadlines reasonably well.
In the real job you learn a lot, of things that are incredibly easy when compared to useless stuff you've learned in the university. So easy in fact that you might not even notice them.
Throughout my whole career maybe two courses from the university were directly useful. And yet when I was getting employed in a corporation I was asked for a proof that I completed higher education, despite the fact that nothing on the job required even a shred of knowledge from there but required a lot of knowledge I acquired later. Which they already tested me on before the point they asked for my diploma.