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I'm thankful this isn't true in Engineering (for the most part). I go to UPenn so I see snobbery like this all the time, but from my experience my friends from
by habosa 14y ago
I'm thankful this isn't true in Engineering (for the most part). I go to UPenn so I see snobbery like this all the time, but from my experience my friends from 'lesser' (not my assessment) schools are all given a fair shot at engineering companies of any size. I definitely see a ton of bullshit like that described in this article from large financial companies like Goldman Sachs, etc. I have friends who go to Penn and will get an interview, but then when the interviewer finds out they're not in Wharton in particular they lose all interest without even giving the kid a chance. It's crazy, so much emphasis is put on the words on your degree rather than your abilities. It's one thing to use it to filter resumes, but it's crazy when my friends go into an interview for which the interviewer has already allotted time and are not given a fair shot.
- homosaur 14y agoEngineering has always been a put up or shut up kind of field. I've seen people with very little education who are some of the most respected programmers in their field and I've seen people who barely graduated from State U making 175K leading huge departments. It's kind of hard to do that with say, investment banking. How is an undergrad supposed to prove they are an amazing investment banker? What kind of portfolio do you assemble for that? Part of the issue here is not just the name on the degree, but that they want people that are homogenous and from that Harvard/Yale milieu so they can chat up other bankers who also graduated from Ivy League schools.