Zoho Don't Need No Stinking Ph.D Programmers

theodp writes "When it comes to tech academic credentials, Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu has The Right Stuff, a PhD in EE from Princeton. But Vembu has eschewed Google's Army-of-PhDs approach to software development in favor of tapping into the ranks of high school grads who would not normally go to college for Zoho. Seeing his youngest brother succeed at programming without a college degree convinced Vembu that others could follow that example with the proper training and guidance. And studying the best employees in his own company led to another epiphany: 'What if the college degree itself is not really that useful?' thought Vembu. 'What if we took kids after high school, train them ourselves?'"pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstor y%2F10%2F07%2F01%2F208222%2FZoho-Dont-Need-No-Stinking-PhD-Programmers" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Zoho+Don't+Need+No+Stinking+Ph.D+Progr ammers%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FcFxr4a" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/07/01/208222/Zoho-Dont-Need-No-Stinking-PhD-Programmers?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./ppa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/1ozfmqfHgyIcl0dax9MtebdIYOs/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/1ozfmqfHgyIcl0dax9MtebdIYOs/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/1ozfmqfHgyIcl0dax9MtebdIYOs/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/1ozfmqfHgyIcl0dax9MtebdIYOs/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/Upyxf2DkzMA" height="1" width="1"/

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