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What's weird is how many students work their asses off, get amazing grades, go to top schools...and end up at a big tech company working with people who went to
by hardwaregeek 6y ago
What's weird is how many students work their asses off, get amazing grades, go to top schools...and end up at a big tech company working with people who went to state school and community college. Of course going to a top school makes the application process easier, but only insofar that you clear the resume screen and get some confirmation/credential bias in your favor. Don't get me wrong, it's great that tech companies can have Stanford alongside community college. But honestly it seems a bit of a waste when my classmates who went to Stanford and Harvard end up at Facebook or Google. Truly the best minds of my generation devoted to getting people to click on ads.
- gge 6y agoIf thats what they choose to work on, they probably weren't the best minds ;)
- skybrian 6y agoHow could anyone know? Google is vast and has many kinds of jobs, and so there simply isn't enough information to say. There is cutting-edge research and also pretty boring business app development. Also, some jobs are pretty specialized and not the sort of thing you can get as a generic software engineer.