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Yeah...previous to moving to the west coast (working not for a FAANG, but a well recognized name that competes for much of the same talent, and offers comparabl

Yeah...previous to moving to the west coast (working not for a FAANG, but a well recognized name that competes for much of the same talent, and offers comparable compensation), I was working in Atlanta. I would argue the caliber of people I worked with there, from no name universities, or known names, but not equivalent to many people (Georgia Tech vs Berkeley, say), was generally better there. It of course varied person to person, but the teams were generally stronger, senior devs were more senior, juniors tended to be hungrier to learn, etc. Maybe it was just the lack of the FAANGs sucking up the best people.

Stratoscope 7y ago
Indeed, there was a comment here a few years ago from someone who was rejected for an interview, the stated reason being "Sorry, we're only accepting candidates from top tier schools. We've never heard of Georgia Tech." I was like "WTF? They've probably never heard of Waterloo either!" (For anyone unfamiliar, these may not be household names, but they are definitely top tier CS schools.)
- hermitdev 7y ago
  I worked for a hedge fund that was like that. You only got in as a fresh grad if you were in a top tier school, or you had a strong referral from an existing employee. I got in on a referral, despite going to a highly ranked engineering school, but not MIT or CMU. Edit: we also hired a few idiots out of MIT. Remember one instance when an intern from MIT sent an email to a wide audience something to the effect "your API is breaking my code, fix your API". This was in C++. They were asking for something that didnt exist and then blindly dereferenced the nonexistent first element causing a segfault. My response was to the effect of "youre dereferncing an empty vector. API is fine. Fix your fucking code." The interns original email was sent to just my team, but CC'd nearly all of front office. In my reply I added all of backoffice so they were aware of the idiot. Never heard from them again...
addicted 7y ago
The problem is there is no GT equivalent around for states. The coasts tend to have clusters of many top caliber technical colleges.

Stratoscope 7y ago

Indeed, there was a comment here a few years ago from someone who was rejected for an interview, the stated reason being "Sorry, we're only accepting candidates from top tier schools. We've never heard of Georgia Tech." I was like "WTF? They've probably never heard of Waterloo either!" (For anyone unfamiliar, these may not be household names, but they are definitely top tier CS schools.)

hermitdev 7y ago
I worked for a hedge fund that was like that. You only got in as a fresh grad if you were in a top tier school, or you had a strong referral from an existing employee. I got in on a referral, despite going to a highly ranked engineering school, but not MIT or CMU. Edit: we also hired a few idiots out of MIT. Remember one instance when an intern from MIT sent an email to a wide audience something to the effect "your API is breaking my code, fix your API". This was in C++. They were asking for something that didnt exist and then blindly dereferenced the nonexistent first element causing a segfault. My response was to the effect of "youre dereferncing an empty vector. API is fine. Fix your fucking code." The interns original email was sent to just my team, but CC'd nearly all of front office. In my reply I added all of backoffice so they were aware of the idiot. Never heard from them again...

addicted 7y ago

The problem is there is no GT equivalent around for states. The coasts tend to have clusters of many top caliber technical colleges.