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Good to hear that engineering is less dependent on institutional prestige. As someone who doesn't attend a name-brand university, I hope to be evaluated more fo
by mwhuang2 11y ago
Good to hear that engineering is less dependent on institutional prestige. As someone who doesn't attend a name-brand university, I hope to be evaluated more for my skills than for the school I went to.
- brianwawok 11y agoIt may make your first offer harder. Some companies are way more likely to put a booth at the career fair of MIT compared to Foo State. After that meh.. some people care about schools, many do not.
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- santaclaus 11y agoI would imagine that the social network one builds in college can help later on, too, if only for internal referrals. I would be interested to see what percentage of Google employees attended Stanford vs. other schools vs. started professionally programming without a college degree.
- morgante 11y agoJust find some way to get yourself into the "in network." That can be attending a prestigious university, but you can also get it from the right internships or hackathon connections. I didn't attend a traditionally top-ranked university, but it turns out that the majority of my useful connections did.