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Furthermore, you don't even need to go to a target school. Because the largest and most reputable employers in tech (Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, etc.) hav

Furthermore, you don't even need to go to a target school. Because the largest and most reputable employers in tech (Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, etc.) have no target schools.

lazyasciiart 7y ago
That doesn't sound right to me - how are you defining target school?
- HenryKissinger 7y ago
  Large investment banks - Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, etc. - recruit most of their summer interns at a select group of universities, usually Ivy League universities. It is extremely difficult to land an entry level job in investment banking if you did not attend Harvard, Princeton, Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, New York University, or a few others, regardless of your skills. It happens, but the deck is heavily stacked against you. Fortunately, tech does not practice such favoritism. The ranking of your alma mater on US News & World Report does not matter if you have the right technical skills for the job.
  - lazyasciiart 7y ago
    Ah - yes, tech isn't that strict, but it is definitely not agnostic to school. They're only sending recruiters to a small selection of college career fairs and they aren't chosen at random.
  - esoterica 7y ago
    Yeah no that is completely false. There are less acutely snobby about completely shutting out candidates that didn’t go to the right school, but they do still heavily favor people who attended pedigreed schools. What fraction of the general population do you think attended MIT, vs the fraction of Google’s workforce that went there?
  - throwlaplace 7y ago
    >does not matter if you have the right technical skills for the job. Lol do you think the school you went to isn't in your hiring packet?
RandallBrown 7y ago
What is a target school?
- chrisseaton 7y ago
  Somewhere large popular companies that pay well actively recruit from, which makes it much easier to get started.
augustt 7y ago
True to an extent, but they still definitely spend more resources on "target" schools. Looking at the MIT EECS jobs mailing list I see two Apple networking events this week. And I know Apple in particular has worked directly with professors to fast-track strong EE students here.
seanmcdirmid 7y ago
Most of the tech companies are in Seattle largely because of UW. I wasn’t really expecting it, but there are a lot of UW CSEs working in Seattle FAANG offices.
- samfisher83 7y ago
  They are there because of bill gates being born there. UW isn't like Harvard or Stanford. It's a good public school. Microsoft had a lot of smart people which is one of the reasons bezos moved there. With msft and amzn there, fb and going decided to leverage that talent.
  - seanmcdirmid 7y ago
    UW CSE is ranked more than a few places higher than Harvard CS, it has the second highest ranking next to UCB CS.

Furthermore, you don't even need to go to a target school. Because the largest and most reputable employers in tech (Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, etc.) have no target schools.

lazyasciiart 7y ago

That doesn't sound right to me - how are you defining target school?

HenryKissinger 7y ago
Large investment banks - Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, etc. - recruit most of their summer interns at a select group of universities, usually Ivy League universities. It is extremely difficult to land an entry level job in investment banking if you did not attend Harvard, Princeton, Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, New York University, or a few others, regardless of your skills. It happens, but the deck is heavily stacked against you. Fortunately, tech does not practice such favoritism. The ranking of your alma mater on US News & World Report does not matter if you have the right technical skills for the job.
- lazyasciiart 7y ago
  Ah - yes, tech isn't that strict, but it is definitely not agnostic to school. They're only sending recruiters to a small selection of college career fairs and they aren't chosen at random.
- esoterica 7y ago
  Yeah no that is completely false. There are less acutely snobby about completely shutting out candidates that didn’t go to the right school, but they do still heavily favor people who attended pedigreed schools. What fraction of the general population do you think attended MIT, vs the fraction of Google’s workforce that went there?
- throwlaplace 7y ago
  >does not matter if you have the right technical skills for the job. Lol do you think the school you went to isn't in your hiring packet?

RandallBrown 7y ago

What is a target school?

chrisseaton 7y ago
Somewhere large popular companies that pay well actively recruit from, which makes it much easier to get started.

augustt 7y ago

True to an extent, but they still definitely spend more resources on "target" schools. Looking at the MIT EECS jobs mailing list I see two Apple networking events this week. And I know Apple in particular has worked directly with professors to fast-track strong EE students here.

seanmcdirmid 7y ago

Most of the tech companies are in Seattle largely because of UW. I wasn’t really expecting it, but there are a lot of UW CSEs working in Seattle FAANG offices.

samfisher83 7y ago
They are there because of bill gates being born there. UW isn't like Harvard or Stanford. It's a good public school. Microsoft had a lot of smart people which is one of the reasons bezos moved there. With msft and amzn there, fb and going decided to leverage that talent.
- seanmcdirmid 7y ago
  UW CSE is ranked more than a few places higher than Harvard CS, it has the second highest ranking next to UCB CS.