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You can't deny a Stanford CS degree will go further at pedigree obsessed firms (like Google) than a Humboldt State CS degree.
by ZanyProgrammer 11y ago
You can't deny a Stanford CS degree will go further at pedigree obsessed firms (like Google) than a Humboldt State CS degree.
- morgante 11y agoSure, a top-tier degree will absolutely help you get a leg up. But there are law firms who pretty much only hire top 5 graduates. This is different from even Google, where a Stanford degree might help but there are still plenty of self-taught or non-Ivy developers.
- Scoundreller 11y agoBecause when choosing a search engine, nobody would care if it said "Brought to you by top 5 grads", while in law, that gets customers to pay top dollar. Maybe people care more about outcomes when they're spending their own time instead of someone else's money?
- cossatot 11y agoI think it has more to do with quality (and bullshit) detection. If a search engine sucks, it's pretty easy to try a different one and see if the results are better. If you get hosed in a law suit, it's not as clear that the outcome would have been better with a different firm. Pedigrees matter a lot more when it's hard to directly evaluate the quality of the output so decision makers default to signalling.
- e40 11y agoDid you miss the by and large if you have a string of accomplishments all doors are open to you part?