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It's amazing what doors having attended a good university can open. I'm on my second job after graduation, and I could obviously tell that the university I atte

by dnaquin 18y ago

It's amazing what doors having attended a good university can open. I'm on my second job after graduation, and I could obviously tell that the university I attended had a much larger impact on my hiring than the last years' worth of work experience.

aantix 18y ago
Have you been applying to large financial institutions because they seem to be the only ones who care anymore these days. 10 or 15 years into your career no one is going to care if you went to Harvard, MIT, Carnegie Mellon or any other school. You reach a point where the general studies that you took are just assumed and people will begin to want to know the particular niche skills that you have experience with (e.g., you've worked developing an automated trading system or you've worked developing some sort of image processing app). If I'm interviewing an engineer of 10 years and he mentions more than once where he went to school I am going to hammer him with technical questions. "OK Mr. MIT, let's see if that education really paid off."
- yummyfajitas 18y ago
  What about Cornell? http://youtube.com/watch?v=3P8s6ZkrzlE&feature=related http://youtube.com/watch?v=3P8s6ZkrzlE&feature=related
- dnaquin 18y ago
  I work at a small software development shop of about fifteen employees. Though, I agree in 10 to 15 years, I'd be concerned if anyone even asked me what school I went to. I'd start to think it's not a place I want to be working.
aswanson 18y ago
In straight up engineering jobs, nobody seems to give a damn about the school after your first gig. This may be due to the fact that you are generally being recruited for specific skill set and competence that the employer needs to derive measurable value from. The signaling type jobs (law, finance, hedge funds) require the big name schools, but not a specific skill set. Which tends to make me think that they are full of shit.

by dnaquin 18y ago

aantix 18y ago

Have you been applying to large financial institutions because they seem to be the only ones who care anymore these days. 10 or 15 years into your career no one is going to care if you went to Harvard, MIT, Carnegie Mellon or any other school. You reach a point where the general studies that you took are just assumed and people will begin to want to know the particular niche skills that you have experience with (e.g., you've worked developing an automated trading system or you've worked developing some sort of image processing app). If I'm interviewing an engineer of 10 years and he mentions more than once where he went to school I am going to hammer him with technical questions. "OK Mr. MIT, let's see if that education really paid off."

yummyfajitas 18y ago
What about Cornell? http://youtube.com/watch?v=3P8s6ZkrzlE&feature=related http://youtube.com/watch?v=3P8s6ZkrzlE&feature=related
dnaquin 18y ago
I work at a small software development shop of about fifteen employees. Though, I agree in 10 to 15 years, I'd be concerned if anyone even asked me what school I went to. I'd start to think it's not a place I want to be working.

aswanson 18y ago

In straight up engineering jobs, nobody seems to give a damn about the school after your first gig. This may be due to the fact that you are generally being recruited for specific skill set and competence that the employer needs to derive measurable value from. The signaling type jobs (law, finance, hedge funds) require the big name schools, but not a specific skill set. Which tends to make me think that they are full of shit.