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Interesting article. Although to say this is for 'Tech Companies' is a bit off. A lot of the schools on that list are likely only on there due to geographic loc

by jds375 12y ago

Interesting article. Although to say this is for 'Tech Companies' is a bit off. A lot of the schools on that list are likely only on there due to geographic location (Bay Area or greater California area). There are plenty of Midwest and East Coast schools that feed plenty of Tech Companies, just not necessarily the few big ones out in California used for this infographic. If this were better accounted for I'd imagine there would be more big name Midwest schools and Ivy's alike.

michaelochurch 12y ago
Pedigree is industry-specific. Bankers think of Stanford as a mediocre party school. (I'm not saying it is, but admitting Duplan and Speigel didn't help their case.) The Valley thinks of Yalies and Princetonians in similarly negative terms: third-rate artsy goofs. (Again, I'm not saying that it's an accurate perception.) Good-ol'-boy blue bloods (who still populate F500 boardrooms and attend Davos, but aren't relevant to any industry we care about) hold mediocre-but-rich northeastern schools in high regard, but don't think much of MIT (or, more accurately, they despise it). School snobbery isn't rational and there certainly isn't a linear ordering (it being the parochial prejudice of pseudointellectuals too dumb to actually judge people as individuals). But the Yale and Princeton students (disliked by the Valley) can easily find good jobs outside the Valley, and do. Usually, however, they go into something like management consulting, which means they come in a bit later and clean up the messes resulting from badly-architected California companies and a decade or so of man-child management.
- hkmurakami 12y ago
  Increasingly, the route seems to be shortening, with many of my classmates going the Finance (3-4 yrs) -> MBA (2 yrs) -> VC/PM/Mktg in tech as they burn out, whereas I think they used to arrive a bit later in their careers.

by jds375 12y ago

michaelochurch 12y ago

Pedigree is industry-specific. Bankers think of Stanford as a mediocre party school. (I'm not saying it is, but admitting Duplan and Speigel didn't help their case.) The Valley thinks of Yalies and Princetonians in similarly negative terms: third-rate artsy goofs. (Again, I'm not saying that it's an accurate perception.) Good-ol'-boy blue bloods (who still populate F500 boardrooms and attend Davos, but aren't relevant to any industry we care about) hold mediocre-but-rich northeastern schools in high regard, but don't think much of MIT (or, more accurately, they despise it). School snobbery isn't rational and there certainly isn't a linear ordering (it being the parochial prejudice of pseudointellectuals too dumb to actually judge people as individuals). But the Yale and Princeton students (disliked by the Valley) can easily find good jobs outside the Valley, and do. Usually, however, they go into something like management consulting, which means they come in a bit later and clean up the messes resulting from badly-architected California companies and a decade or so of man-child management.

hkmurakami 12y ago
Increasingly, the route seems to be shortening, with many of my classmates going the Finance (3-4 yrs) -> MBA (2 yrs) -> VC/PM/Mktg in tech as they burn out, whereas I think they used to arrive a bit later in their careers.