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 re

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.