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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
by 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 agoAh - 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 agoYeah 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?