More than just preparing people for getting hired, these companies also seem to make their hiring pipeline resemble the admissions pipeline for the Ivy Leagues

More than just preparing people for getting hired, these companies also seem to make their hiring pipeline resemble the admissions pipeline for the Ivy Leagues themselves. Despite the fact that it's a hard grueling selection process, that can still make it the path of least resistance for people who went through that process once already. It's not only familiar, it feeds your expectations of what the "next step" is supposed to look like.