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 on

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."