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Do you have any facts to back this up? I would say education is pretty irrelevant if you've actually got something to show off (open source projects, etc).
by Rjevski 9y ago
Do you have any facts to back this up? I would say education is pretty irrelevant if you've actually got something to show off (open source projects, etc).
- pyrophane 9y agoEducation is not irrelevant in tech if you went to MIT or Stanford.
- needlessly 9y agoit's pretty well known if you go to a top university, then you're more likely to get interviews if you don't have much professional experience outside internships. I'm not saying you can't work at Google from a no-name university, but but there is a steeper hill. Once you have like 7+ years of professional experience, then education matters less.
- austinheap 9y agoYou're totally right that a Name Brand™ degree will open doors at the staple companies like Apple/Google/Facebook. That said, the number of times I've been debriefing on a candidate and their degree came up as a factor is zero. That's after hiring 100+ in SF and interviewing a # I don't want to think about.
- needlessly 9y ago>the number of times I've been debriefing.. Oh, I didn't know you were the hiring manager in the world. Sry. Cherry picked examples aren't a good example. Logic 101
- austinheap 9y agoI'm simply offering anecdotal evidence from a variety of different companies across the tech sector I've worked at. I wasn't trying to imply I'm the "hiring manager in the world".
- colmvp 9y agoI'm not saying I disbelieve your own POV, but bias can sometimes be hard to recognize, both in ourselves and others.
- SamReidHughes 9y agoIt's not the education per se, it's the higher probability distribution of how good you are.
- dragonwriter 9y agoAnd, perhaps more significantly, the social cachet of the institution among the population doing hiring and the probability of your network intersecting with those of the people doing hiring.