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> Employers don’t care where you went to school. This depends on the employer. Google is notorious for not only caring about your school, but your GPA. Also

> Employers don’t care where you went to school. This depends on the employer. Google is notorious for not only caring about your school, but your GPA. Also as someone who has looked at hundreds, if not thousands, of resumes over the years - the reality is you very quickly start to look for any sort of signal and schools are definitely something some (I would guess most) consider. Do I think it's unfair? Sure. But recruiters simply do not have the time to look into every applicant with any sort of detail.

physcab 8y ago
I’m not so sure anymore. I’ve worked at a couple FANGs and I have never looked at a candidates resume beyond their last job or two. I only look at their degree to calculate years of experience in my head. But ultimately we put faith in our interview process more than a resume. I would totally hire someone who has relevant experience than what their degrees were (or any), as long as they passed the normal interview gauntlet that everyone takes.
- zaptheimpaler 8y ago
  Engineers typically don't care so much about school, but the first filter is recruiters who do. A recruiter has <10s to read your resume and has no technical knowledge, so a good school or FANG on your resume helps you pass their screen.
  - sh87 8y ago
    years of mostly pointless assignments, lectures and pre-test cramming coupled with thousands of hard earned dollars spent on getting <10s of attention from a recruiter. Feels harsh, strange and unproductive enough to be true.
dmourati 8y ago
No longer true at Google about degree/GPA.
noitsnot 8y ago
Let's say you get past recruiters and/or HR. You're sitting in a room full of potential coworkers who question how you wake up in the morning and put on your pants because they went to a four year school and have that degree. It's a club and you're not in it.
- tylerhou 8y ago
  This is not the experience I had when interviewing at my current employer (or any employer I’ve interviewed at!) and I didn’t go to college.
jehlakj 8y ago
Play around hr. Network.

physcab 8y ago

I’m not so sure anymore. I’ve worked at a couple FANGs and I have never looked at a candidates resume beyond their last job or two. I only look at their degree to calculate years of experience in my head. But ultimately we put faith in our interview process more than a resume. I would totally hire someone who has relevant experience than what their degrees were (or any), as long as they passed the normal interview gauntlet that everyone takes.

zaptheimpaler 8y ago
Engineers typically don't care so much about school, but the first filter is recruiters who do. A recruiter has <10s to read your resume and has no technical knowledge, so a good school or FANG on your resume helps you pass their screen.
- sh87 8y ago
  years of mostly pointless assignments, lectures and pre-test cramming coupled with thousands of hard earned dollars spent on getting <10s of attention from a recruiter. Feels harsh, strange and unproductive enough to be true.

dmourati 8y ago

No longer true at Google about degree/GPA.

noitsnot 8y ago

Let's say you get past recruiters and/or HR. You're sitting in a room full of potential coworkers who question how you wake up in the morning and put on your pants because they went to a four year school and have that degree. It's a club and you're not in it.

tylerhou 8y ago
This is not the experience I had when interviewing at my current employer (or any employer I’ve interviewed at!) and I didn’t go to college.

jehlakj 8y ago

Play around hr. Network.