Graduates on the whole can be a nightmare to work with especially if they have come straight out of university with zero practical work experience. It is when they start talking out-of-depth and undermining the experienced people in the team with their lack of experience is when it gets really annoying. Another aspect of questionable hiring is when graduates need mentors in the workplace to teach them everything that they should have been taught at university. Another aspect of annoyance is when they insist on using anti-patterns, while questioning the use of best practices and correct use of patterns. In fact, they have probably never even heard of the best practices and patterns before. Nor do they have the necessary skills to think through practical solutions for business. When things go wrong they are quick to blame others rather than take ownership of their mistakes and learn from experienced people on the team. As a result, they will drag the experienced people on the team to make the same mistakes. Furthermore, one will have to deal with questionable understanding of even the most basic things. On other cases, it is their bizarre comments like "there is no such thing as reverse discrimination", "statistics is not math", "decision trees is not machine learning" that makes them sound utterly clueless. How can you have statistics without the elements of math. Even more annoying is that they will assume they know more than the experienced member on the team and start teaching them basics making themselves sound like a beginner with little to no practical skills. Some of them even need help with google search. They basically are so used to courseworks where someone literally hands everything to them on a silver platter that they assume working on a business product case would work the same way. In fact, they have a tendency of approaching business solutions like they working on a school assignment. On the whole, most degrees should enable a graduate to think and to be resourceful in learning on their own (towards a holistic attitude to self-learning, self-exploration, with the added sense of creativity to extend it in some way). However, it seems universities are not teaching students on how to deal with the complexities and uncertainties. When they come into the real-world they are ill-equipped with the practical skills nor the mindset to think on their own apart from turning up with a shed load of arrogance and a total lack of creativity. Like they think passing a degree means they have conquered the world. The worse things a team can do during a project is to trust graduates especially if they have no practical experience. In fact, they will find themselves quite insecure working around experienced individuals to the point of being disruptive and undermine their work. Employers need to end hiring graduates that have no work experience and giving preference for individuals that have at least some applied skills to share as examples in practical application cases. Education is rarely ever a substitute for experience in any practical field. Just passing an exam will not provide a graduate the necessary skills needed to do the job. All university courses should really be providing at least a year of practical training in a controlled environment either via internships, bootcamps, gap-year programs, or an element of project work as an application accelerator of applied theory in their courses outside of assignments and exams that replicates the practicalities of solving problems in the real-world. So, when they take on full-time position they can be productive and have the correct mindset for business application. Many universities are also failing to teach graduates the basics of morality and ethics as part of the course in order to maintain their professionalism when they embark on their careers where they will be interacting with all sorts of people and dealing with workplace issues. If employers have hired graduates correctly, there should never be a need to provide them with formal mentors in the workplace and excessive expectations for handholding should not be the norm. On the other hand, employers that listen to inexperienced graduates and allow them to cluelessly dictate project work often lose out considerably with missed deliverable targets, badly executed products, and extended time spent in training graduates for even the most mundane things that leads to a source of frustration for teams. Not to mention a contradiction, on one hand they require mentoring for their lack of experience, and on other they try to dictate project work in teams which is bound to lead to catastrophic failure.
