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It's not him it's his company lol. And it's definitely not unheard of for companies to say they only hire from top 5-10 places.
by leesec 4y ago
It's not him it's his company lol. And it's definitely not unheard of for companies to say they only hire from top 5-10 places.
- spike021 4y agoAbout 10 years ago when I was still going to San Jose State University I began applying to SDE internship openings at various places in the Bay Area. I recall one of {Uber, Lyft, AirBnb, Doordash, other similar place} having a drop-down on the application for the university I was attending. There were roughly 10 universities. I can't remember all of them, maybe Stanford, CMU, Brown, Berkeley, etc. (typical top universities for CS/EE). At the bottom of the list was "Other". I was rejected within an hour or two of submitting my application. I don't want to say it was an automatic filter situation, but...
- azemetre 4y agoIt's just such a shame to see in practice. It's not like these company's workforces are doing something extremely innovative to warrant 1000s of engineers from elite schools; it's always the same web app, written in the same libraries, interacting with the same type of backends. I don't know who said the quote but it went like "The best minds of my generation are working to get people to click ads." The same idea plays out here as well. You want all the prestige candidates to work on your CRUD apps. I kind of understand the political backlash against tech now...