10 years ago I graduated from a school that's not even in the top 100 CS schools. But it was super-duper cheap and i got my foot in the door with hardly any stu

10 years ago I graduated from a school that's not even in the top 100 CS schools. But it was super-duper cheap and i got my foot in the door with hardly any student debt. While I never interviewed at big companies like Google, Amazon and Microsoft, I have been invited to all 3 for interviews at various times throughout my career (sometimes more than once) and I know a lot of my colleagues have as well. So in my experience the choice of school i went to wasn't in any way detrimental to my career. However, I think the story would've been different if i were an entrepreneur and wanted to have access to the same network that someone in MIT or UC Berkley would have access to. That in my mind would be the biggest benefit of attending a top-tier school, but I don't know how important it is to a lot of people.