Anonymous wrote:I used to manage a pretty good size engineering team at a FAANG. Bottom line is that we don't care where you came from as long as you can code. All of the schools being mentioned are fine, they are all very good but we really aren't paying attention to one over another except for higher level degrees and specific disciplines.
For general purpose entry level SWEs we do not care where you went. I had MIT, CalTech, SJSU, NCSU, Waterloo, SLO, Alberta, UToronto, and UCF on my team (more but that is off the top of my head) and they were all good. I don't remember a single Ivy anywhere near me but I know others who had CMU, Stony Brook, Binghamton.
Undergraduate CS isn't that complex, it is more of a smart student learning to grind and deeply understand the basics. Kids can do great from all of the top 100 schools as long as they learn the material deeply and understand how to apply it.
I can't comment on kids looking for Quant or finance types of coding but for your typical FAANG SWE job don't overthink it.
Hard to believe. We need people who can handle complex systems and conflicting requirements and untangle legacy garbage and create minimally complicated but reliable solutions, and teach them to others. Much more than just "code".
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