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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tech / CS hiring manager here - don't discriminate at all among the top 100 schools.  don't care at all.  Decent GPA?  fine, lets move on and talk shop.  The higher ranked placement records is just a matter of the quality of the average student.  If you expect the school to bring you along, then sure, you should focus on that.  The reality is the best CS candidates are passionate about the industry and do a lot on their own time as a hobby.  Personal experiences, internships/professional experience, and how competent you are during the interview matters 1000x more than which school you went to[/quote]
This is commonly known but doesn't invalidate the points made in this thread. 
No one is claiming graduating from a top school would automatically guarantee you a job or certain salary. It's more like the graduates from top schools are relatively of higher quality and motivation (college admission is a screening process to some extent).
In addition, as many have said, certain top firms recruit mainly from selected top schools (due to the same reasons mentioned above).
On average, there is a significant difference in going to a top school or not in terms of starting your career, even for fields such as CS. Your observation as a hiring manager from a relatively obscure firm doesn't necessarily proof anything.[/quote]

This. It will be helpful PPs reveal which firm they work for.

If I am a hiring manager from a top firm and [b]pay $400k for top talent[/b], do I want to sift through thousands of resumes from average schools to find that gem or I limit my search to MIT, CMU, etc where the success rate would be much higher?

The reality is students from top schools are better candidates than regular schools on average.[/quote]
"$400k for top talent"? Are you crazy? That is so rare, like 20 jobs at most? Why on earth would you use that as a standard for hiring from the top 100 CS schools? Get out in the real world sometime. There's fresh air out there. You've been inhaling your own prestige fumes for too long.
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By the time someone is ready to get 400k the work experience and degree matters not where you went to school. I was discussing this with MIT graduated senior manager and he/she said usually they prefer not big school as some of the kids are snobs. Might be one individual opinion.[/quote]

I think the previous poster was referring 400k as your first out of college salary.[/quote]

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