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This is not true of any FAANG and I've worked for all of them. Go to any of them and you will see that most of the SWEs are some combination of MIT, Cal, Stanfo
by endisneigh 3y ago
This is not true of any FAANG and I've worked for all of them. Go to any of them and you will see that most of the SWEs are some combination of MIT, Cal, Stanford, and tier-1 public schools and top 20 (by US News Report) private schools.
- codekansas 3y agoFrom my experience the best people are usually state school undergrad (e.g., Berkeley / UIUC / UNC / UW / GTech) plus selective grad school (Harvard / Stanford / MIT / CMU). At the graduate level those schools are much more meritocratic and it's usually a better indicator of ability. Plus doing well at one of those undergrads is actually really hard.
- laidoffamazon 3y agoI worked at Amazon and I didn't meet a single person in the L4-L6 engineering set that went to an Ivy or other top school (except for one or two that went to CMU). The rest went to state schools including myself. Now I'm at a somewhat well regarded startup and most of the people around me went to Cal States, Arizona State, or UC's.
- endisneigh 3y agoflagship state schools are in that "tier-1 public" category. We're talking Berkeley/UCLA, UT Austin, A&M, UVA, Georgia Tech, etc. etc. etc.
- Given_47 3y agoSimilar to banking, I doubt FAANG doesn’t filter out apps by school to save time. Another confounded being FAANG now also naturally attracts the preftige chasers