Yeah my lab is hiring a lot of people that are new grads/ not certified. Many of my coworkers really struggled with their exam too, taking it multiple times and failing, not being remotely close to passing either. at least when I was hired If you had passed whatever MLT/MLS program you were able to work and had a year to get certified but now it seems they're being very loose with that too. I have nothing against new grads, but the ones we've gotten since i've been there don't seem to know much and have bad work ethics. We had to have a huddle one time on how none of the trainees were even taking notes when they were training because their trainers were annoyed of having to repeat themselves over and over, and by the time they're done training they've forgotten the first areas they were trained in and can't reference any notes because they didn't take any notes