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it's pretty well known if you go to a top university, then you're more likely to get interviews if you don't have much professional experience outside internshi
by needlessly 9y ago
it's pretty well known if you go to a top university, then you're more likely to get interviews if you don't have much professional experience outside internships.
I'm not saying you can't work at Google from a no-name university, but but there is a steeper hill.
Once you have like 7+ years of professional experience, then education matters less.
- austinheap 9y agoYou're totally right that a Name Brand™ degree will open doors at the staple companies like Apple/Google/Facebook. That said, the number of times I've been debriefing on a candidate and their degree came up as a factor is zero. That's after hiring 100+ in SF and interviewing a # I don't want to think about.
- needlessly 9y ago>the number of times I've been debriefing.. Oh, I didn't know you were the hiring manager in the world. Sry. Cherry picked examples aren't a good example. Logic 101
- austinheap 9y agoI'm simply offering anecdotal evidence from a variety of different companies across the tech sector I've worked at. I wasn't trying to imply I'm the "hiring manager in the world".
- colmvp 9y agoI'm not saying I disbelieve your own POV, but bias can sometimes be hard to recognize, both in ourselves and others.