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The author speaks like not going to a "name brand" school will doom somebody or make things exponentially harder. This is simply, empirically not true. If land
by strlen 17y ago
The author speaks like not going to a "name brand" school will doom somebody or make things exponentially harder. This is simply, empirically not true.
If landing a first job out of college is what worries you, factors which matter a great deal more (for dynamic, high growth, technology companies of any size) are competence, curiosity and credibility.
Speaking from my own experience, somebody from an relatively uknown school but who spent his college and high school years working in the industry (even in small companies people have rarely heard of) and writing code outside of work/school in his spare time, will get noticed, interviewed and hired by top tier employers no worse than somebody coming from a brand-name school.
- pgbovine 17y ago(this is the tool/author here again) > Speaking from my own experience, somebody from an relatively uknown school but who spent his college and high school years working in the industry (even in small companies people have rarely heard of) and writing code outside of work/school in his spare time, will get noticed, interviewed and hired by top tier employers no worse than somebody coming from a brand-name school. I totally agree with you, but one of my points in the article is that (rightly or wrongly, i'm not in a position to judge), somebody from a name-brand school would have a decent chance of getting that same job offer even without putting in nearly as much self-driven dedicated real-world hacking work experience as somebody who didn't have such privileges.