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Facebook, Apple and Google campus recruitment is about half and half state schools and half private schools. They don't even bother with some of the Ivies like
by rdouble 14y ago
Facebook, Apple and Google campus recruitment is about half and half state schools and half private schools. They don't even bother with some of the Ivies like Yale and Dartmouth.
There are quite a few Harvard MBAs at VCs like Sequoia but largely most people working in the valley are not Ivy League. Especially in engineering.
If a kid was already a scion of the upper eschelons of the rigid class structure you're suggesting, why on earth would they squander their birthright to go work 15 hours a day with a bunch of tech weirdos? Rich kids don't go into engineering.
- mahyarm 14y agovs. 16 hours a day with a bunch of finance & government type-a's with even worse hazing rituals?
- rdouble 14y agoYes
- timr 14y ago"Facebook, Apple and Google campus recruitment is about half and half state schools and half private schools. They don't even bother with some of the Ivies like Yale and Dartmouth." You're wrong. They may spend more time at MIT and Stanford, but they spend plenty of time at Brown and Yale and Harvard and the other top schools with CS programs. I know for a fact that Facebook hires a ton of people from Harvard. "Rich kids don't go into engineering." You're thinking Paris Hilton, when you should be thinking Moderately Well-Off Kid From Berkeley. That's more than sufficiently "rich", for the purposes of my argument. There are huge numbers of kids living in the suburban midwest for whom a Berkeley CS degree is a financial pipe dream. Dad might be an insurance salesman, and mom a teacher, and they barely have enough money to send junior to State U., let alone a top-tier CS school.
- cafard 14y agoWell, yes, but in the midwest State U. could be Purdue, UIUC, Wisconsin, etc.