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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a degree from a solid British university that you’ve never heard of. I’ve had no problems getting jobs in the US. And as a hiring manager I care much more about experience and presentation of a candidate than what college an applicant attended. The don’t even remember the colleges any of the people I’ve hired attended.[/quote]

Agree. As a hiring manager, I did not care about the school a candidate attended. If I had wanted to know more, I could have searched the internet. However, I never did that. [/quote]

Another mom “hiring manager” here in the Bay Area for a well known tech firm. I apologize, but yes, we do care. we dont rank schools, but we do select where we are going to recruit from. It is a select group of about 20-25 schools in the US. WE do the same thing in Canada, UK and the EU. You might not like it, but this is how the world works in the upper echelons of corporate world. [b]We have hired kids from the t15 UK schools[/b] mentioned in the other DCUM thread  ahead of kids at t25-t50 in the US.

And yes, we know who ETH, TUM, Delft, KU Leuven, KTM is and all of the top UK unis discussed here. We have hired from all of them. And the vast majority of times, these are American kids coming back home.

Sure, while regional employers and others dont care, there is still a big segment of the market that does. [/quote]

So after someone has a couple of years experience you care where they went to college and it’s a more important factor than their job experience? Because I don’t believe that for one second.[/quote]

If you do this, you have an agenda.  There are 2.9 million university students in the UK (and that would include graduate students), while there are almost 20 million in the US.  The qualifications to get into a school ranked #26 in the US would be far better than those needed to get into #12 in the UK.  Don't even get us started comparing to Canadian schools.  I'm not sure that your agenda is, but you and your company definitely have one.[/quote]

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