Yes, that’s kind of the point. Recruiting is hilariously broken in every industry. Tech is unusually open, transparent and meritocratic. If you can somehow inte

Yes, that’s kind of the point. Recruiting is hilariously broken in every industry. Tech is unusually open, transparent and meritocratic. If you can somehow internalise Cracking the Coding Interview or otherwise grind leetcode hard and get an interview you have a good chance at a very well paying job. But there are many, many people chasing those jobs so people use coarse heuristics to winnow down the piles of cvs, among them ranking Bachelors degrees in CS above Masters degrees from the same institutions.