[rootusrootus]

> Why anyone would pay these folks anything is beyond me.

Because they are worried about reputational damage from cheating. Even with tools like Proctorio, ProctorTrack, HonorLock, etc, the cheating rate is pretty high in programs like OMSCS.

[gowld]

The solution to that is so stop investing degrees with imaginary credibility, and hire people based on the hirers own assessments.

[Nasrudith]

That solution is existentially terrifying to them both in the "job depends upon not understanding it" sense and their very ideas of how they feel the world works/should work so are institutional non-starters until they are replaced one way or another (generationally or competition rendering them irrelevant).