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True, your first job may cost you a bit more work to get. Once you get past that challenge it pretty much disappears forever.

• lsc 16y ago
  key is "can you show me how good you are" if you can overcome that hurdle, yes. you are right, where you came from no longer matters. However, this is different from just getting your first job. Lots of people under perform. Sure, if I'm hiring sysadmins, I have a pretty good idea who's good and who's not. But if I'm hiring outside my area? I can't tell a good physicist from a bad one. hell, I can evaluate basic C proficiency, and I can search for kernel patches, but if I was hiring a kernel dev, while I could probably filter off the completely unqualified, I wouldn't know the really good from the mediocre. In those cases your school still counts, especially during the early parts of your career. (in the later parts of your career, the prestige of previous companies you have worked for takes some of that.) Generally, hiring outside of your area is a bad idea and best avoided, but it happens. Some of that is necessary. I mean, I /need/ an accountant for all the same reasons why I'd be bad at evaluating an accountant. Now, even then, school isn't the be-all and end-all... I chose my accountant because she ran a free question-and-answer blog[1], and seemed to know what she was talking about, and as far as I can tell, I chose well. Still, I think that if you are going to school for the 'accreditation' value of a diploma, a diploma from a top tier school is worth rather a lot more than a diploma from a place I have not heard of. [1]http://www.biztaxtalk.com/ http://www.biztaxtalk.com/
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