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I can't really speak for anyone else, but speaking as someone who has been involved in interviewing and making hiring decisions, I don't care what school you we
by tallanvor 10y ago
I can't really speak for anyone else, but speaking as someone who has been involved in interviewing and making hiring decisions, I don't care what school you went to. I care that you graduated, and I care to a slightly lesser extent what your degree is and what your GPA was.
What I really care about when I interview you is how you answer my questions (this doesn't mean that I expect you to be able to answer every question fully), how well I can gauge the depth of your knowledge, and whether or not I think you will listen to senior engineers, learn what you need to do quickly and with an appropriate level of mentorship, and be a team member rather than someone trying to do his/her own thing.
Ok, I'll admit that someone who went to a for-profit school is going to have a higher bar to pass, but I haven't had to worry about that yet.
- AmitJS 10y agoBut if you are a hiring manager at one of the big name companies you would not even short list non-top tier candidates for the interview. I have been applying since the past one month and its the small companies that respond. I think someone who has worked in Microsoft - who might not have contributed much - minor bug fixes compared to the guy who has a worked in a startup - build products from scratch and all that in an extensive deadline - staying up entire nights on a new few occasions to make the release date ends up getting a straight reject.