Top feeder schools for tech and Silicon Valley

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My spouse works in tech. No one cares what college you went to, they care what degree you have but more importantly the skills for the job.

I know about 100 people who went to small, regional no-name colleges who work for Adobe, Facebook, LinkedIn, and other tech companies.

[Anonymous]

Facebook has 60,000 or so employees, LinkedIn has 20,000 people, Amazon has 160,000 in the top 10% of employees - they'll don't come from the Ivies, Stanford, etc.

[Anonymous]

I think the list only includes those jobs in software engineering and information technology, not HR, admins, marketing, legal, etc.

Basically tech jobs at a tech company.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My spouse works in tech. No one cares what college you went to, they care what degree you have but more importantly the skills for the job.

I know about 100 people who went to small, regional no-name colleges who work for Adobe, Facebook, LinkedIn, and other tech companies.

How do you know 100 people who went to small, regional colleges that work anywhere?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Facebook has 60,000 or so employees, LinkedIn has 20,000 people, Amazon has 160,000 in the top 10% of employees - they'll don't come from the Ivies, Stanford, etc.

The cream of the crop always rise to the top.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My spouse works in tech. No one cares what college you went to, they care what degree you have but more importantly the skills for the job.

I know about 100 people who went to small, regional no-name colleges who work for Adobe, Facebook, LinkedIn, and other tech companies.

How do you know 100 people who went to small, regional colleges that work anywhere?

She doesn't. People lie, troll, distort, etc. Check out the anti-UChicago, anti-Michigan, anti-Colby, anti-UVA, anti-Northeastern trolls and how they operate whenever those schools are mentioned.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My spouse works in tech. No one cares what college you went to, they care what degree you have but more importantly the skills for the job.

I know about 100 people who went to small, regional no-name colleges who work for Adobe, Facebook, LinkedIn, and other tech companies.

How do you know 100 people who went to small, regional colleges that work anywhere?

She doesn't. People lie, troll, distort, etc. Check out the anti-UChicago, anti-Michigan, anti-Colby, anti-UVA, anti-Northeastern trolls and how they operate whenever those schools are mentioned.

If you work in tech you can easily know that many especially if you change jobs every few years.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My spouse works in tech. No one cares what college you went to, they care what degree you have but more importantly the skills for the job.

I know about 100 people who went to small, regional no-name colleges who work for Adobe, Facebook, LinkedIn, and other tech companies.

How do you know 100 people who went to small, regional colleges that work anywhere?

She doesn't. People lie, troll, distort, etc. Check out the anti-UChicago, anti-Michigan, anti-Colby, anti-UVA, anti-Northeastern trolls and how they operate whenever those schools are mentioned.

If you work in tech you can easily know that many especially if you change jobs every few years.

You may know 100 people…but 100 people that went to no name regional colleges at top tech companies? I suppose if you include every job category (so Exec assistants to software engineers), but is your college plastered on your forehead?

I would wager less than 10% of FAANG technical employees went to these no name schools. None of the Cal Stat schools would qualify here…since those aren’t no name.

It’s a weird statement.

[Anonymous]

The Big Law analogy is correct. You are not out of the running for a big law job if you go to a lower tier school, but the road is a lot tougher than someone enrolled in one of the targeted school.

What happens in the real world is that the company sees the work product of a particular university's student, and if it likes it, it will more likely higher from that school. The more the company hires from that school, the more the company has decision-makers from that school. Their influence becomes a loop.

So, school choice for CS and tech do matter. The only debate is how much.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Stanford, MIT and UC Berkeley.

Columbia and CMU

+1 Those skilled in STEM know that adjusting for size is important.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Graduates of other Universities can still apply and yes, UMD Computer Science graduates make it to the FAANG companies. The key is to be so skilled they have to hire you when you interview. Keep up with the technologies and think/work like a software architect even as a new graduate.

Most people reading and replying to this thread really have no idea what getting hired as a dev for top tier software companies is like. In my limited experience, it’s not at all a matter of “keep up with new technologies” but rather “have a brain that enables you to solve LeetCode ‘hard’ problems in 30 minutes rather than the several hours that very, very smart and skilled devs take. “

I’ve been a developer/development manager for a long time, and I recently went through the interview process for one of companies on this list on a lark. I was shocked at how difficult the technical interview was, and equally shocked to be offered a fairly low level IC developer job paying just under what my current senior architect role pays. Also, the job I was offered was coding in a language I don’t know, but the company said “we know smart people can learn new technologies, we’re not worried about that.”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Graduates of other Universities can still apply and yes, UMD Computer Science graduates make it to the FAANG companies. The key is to be so skilled they have to hire you when you interview. Keep up with the technologies and think/work like a software architect even as a new graduate.

Most people reading and replying to this thread really have no idea what getting hired as a dev for top tier software companies is like. In my limited experience, it’s not at all a matter of “keep up with new technologies” but rather “have a brain that enables you to solve LeetCode ‘hard’ problems in 30 minutes rather than the several hours that very, very smart and skilled devs take. “

I’ve been a developer/development manager for a long time, and I recently went through the interview process for one of companies on this list on a lark. I was shocked at how difficult the technical interview was, and equally shocked to be offered a fairly low level IC developer job paying just under what my current senior architect role pays. Also, the job I was offered was coding in a language I don’t know, but the company said “we know smart people can learn new technologies, we’re not worried about that.”

I assume you are shocked the pay is so high at these companies…if I understand what you are saying?

[Anonymous]

actually it’s all about knowing someone - 52% of Salesforce hires are from referrals, and I expect most of the other giants mirror this - even the ones who go to campus -

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Graduates of other Universities can still apply and yes, UMD Computer Science graduates make it to the FAANG companies. The key is to be so skilled they have to hire you when you interview. Keep up with the technologies and think/work like a software architect even as a new graduate.

Most people reading and replying to this thread really have no idea what getting hired as a dev for top tier software companies is like. In my limited experience, it’s not at all a matter of “keep up with new technologies” but rather “have a brain that enables you to solve LeetCode ‘hard’ problems in 30 minutes rather than the several hours that very, very smart and skilled devs take. “

I’ve been a developer/development manager for a long time, and I recently went through the interview process for one of companies on this list on a lark. I was shocked at how difficult the technical interview was, and equally shocked to be offered a fairly low level IC developer job paying just under what my current senior architect role pays. Also, the job I was offered was coding in a language I don’t know, but the company said “we know smart people can learn new technologies, we’re not worried about that.”

How about 6 interviews, each one testing and probing you. Factual problems, technical gotchas...

I agree, most here don't understand how difficult the hiring process is in SV.

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Anonymous wrote:My spouse works in tech. No one cares what college you went to, they care what degree you have but more importantly the skills for the job.

I know about 100 people who went to small, regional no-name colleges who work for Adobe, Facebook, LinkedIn, and other tech companies.

How do you know 100 people who went to small, regional colleges that work anywhere?

She doesn't. People lie, troll, distort, etc. Check out the anti-UChicago, anti-Michigan, anti-Colby, anti-UVA, anti-Northeastern trolls and how they operate whenever those schools are mentioned.

If you work in tech you can easily know that many especially if you change jobs every few years.

You may know 100 people…but 100 people that went to no name regional colleges at top tech companies? I suppose if you include every job category (so Exec assistants to software engineers), but is your college plastered on your forehead?

I would wager less than 10% of FAANG technical employees went to these no name schools. None of the Cal Stat schools would qualify here…since those aren’t no name.

It’s a weird statement.

? most people have not heard of CSU Schools.

-CSU grad who worked for a FAANG.