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Are you entirely excluding university recruiting from this? Because consulting firms and investment banks routinely recruit smart people without any demonstrabl
by the_watcher 10y ago
Are you entirely excluding university recruiting from this? Because consulting firms and investment banks routinely recruit smart people without any demonstrable experience doing what those companies plan to train them to do.
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- VLM 10y agoThat's almost exclusively ivy. We need a Yale guy, any Yale guy, doesn't matter who, just need it for the list of accomplishments. Then we can use our new "ivy atmosphere" to get that specific guy from Stanford or whatever. The only place hiring generic warm bodies at random state-U is Starbucks.
- the_watcher 10y agoConsulting firms and investment banks recruit plenty out of my alma mater, UCLA (a public, state university that isn't considered part of the Ivy Plus). They did the same at University of Texas, where I went to graduate school, another public, state university.