If students' optimization function is getting hired, what happens to the quality of skill and knowledge of grads?
As far as we know there is no direct competitor in learning to doing it repeatedly, in different ways. Now whether a mixture of structured and truly unstructured learning is superior is another discussion.
Getting the job will depend more upon the grade and the network then it does upon any one homework assignment...
Is it stupid to do something perfunctorily when there is no direct evidence that a huge time& effort investment is going to pay off?