I think that's one of the massive problems with companies like Equifax. I mean most of these companies aren't hiring people who've been in the field for years simply because they don't have a piece of paper proving they attended four years at some reeducation camp. It wasn't that way before, but now a college degree is legitimately no sign of a competent person. I remember even when I was younger, if someone went to college, typically it meant they knew their shit and if they weren't well-rounded in their knowledge, they at least were expert in whatever field of study they selected. Now most of the people I meet who've gone to college [not all] are fucking borderline retarded. At my last job I worked with a guy who had a fucking bachelor's degree [in Communications if I remember right] and I was trying to show him how to manage inventory via a handheld terminal. I told him to add the three cases he'd just brought back to the total count of product and he struggled every time with it. Eventually I just started doing the math for him.
This is what people have been bitching about for YEARS at this point. Diversity hires and hiring based on a degree alone, often times you end up with inept fucking people who have no idea what they're doing and would be better suited to mopping the floor at McDonalds. Those people get hired due to quotas or hiring restrictions or because they know someone in HR, and people who are adept in that industry or at least intermediate can't even get their foot in the door because they don't have a degree or because they're the wrong color. That shit is what happens when you hire based on oppression points rather than experience and merits. Then when something disastrous happens like a breach, the entire company and all of the other people working there get fucked because of one moron.