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I went to the University of Michigan for my computer science degree. Google recruits pretty heavily there (Larry Page's alma mater after all). I had lots of fri
by RandallBrown 14y ago
I went to the University of Michigan for my computer science degree. Google recruits pretty heavily there (Larry Page's alma mater after all). I had lots of friends that went to Michigan State for their degrees. The Google recruiter showed them a list of jobs they could apply for. When one of them asked about other jobs that were on their website, the recruiter said they didn't usually consider people from Michigan State for those jobs.
Now, I'm not saying Google doesn't hire anyone from MSU, I know several engineers at Google from there, but it can be a pretty huge disadvantage to go there.
After college, I worked with a bunch of people that went to Michigan State, and we went to a Michigan career fair to recruit for our company. They were shocked by the number of big software companies recruiting at Michigan vs. MSU. Microsoft and Google might be big enough to recruit anywhere, but places like Apple, Amazon, Hulu, Expedia, and dozens of others never made it to MSU.
- seanmcdirmid 14y agoThere are high tier state schools and there are other lesser tier state schools (usually anything "XXX State", but not always!). But the number of high tier schools is around 30 in the US, so its not a very exclusive club, but once you come from outside that group, life can get very hard to get into a big company. But then, life doesn't completely suck, you can still get a job, especially if its at a local company that already has many employees from that school.