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As a startup employer in the Midwest this doesn’t resonate with me at all. We don’t care what school you went to as long as you’re good. In this hiring climate
by yesimahuman 5y ago
As a startup employer in the Midwest this doesn’t resonate with me at all. We don’t care what school you went to as long as you’re good. In this hiring climate no one can afford to be weirdly selective about school
- endemic 5y agoSame here, I helped do recruiting for a previous employer, a healthcare tech company in Columbus, OH. AFAIK the other local tech companies are fairly egalitarian regarding higher education.
- PascLeRasc 5y agoMidwest is broad and from what I hear about Chicago and Minneapolis they're much more progressive. I'm referring mostly to Ohio/western Pennsylvania/WV. It's good to hear that you'd give local grads a chance though, thanks.
- yesimahuman 5y agoAs a midwesterner I should know better than to make generalizations about what is a huge and diverse region of America, so good reminder!
- ericmay 5y agoPeople in Ohio, western PA, and WV are very, very friendly toward local university graduates. You’re more like to get a job in West Virginia graduating from Ohio State than you are Harvard… To your point about getting jobs at SpaceX and Amazon you have to leave the Midwest but that’s only after you graduate from Ohio State, Michigan, Purdue, Northwestern, Wisconsin, or any of the other schools these companies regularly recruit at. Have friends and colleagues at all of them. You’d be surprised.