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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think this (old) article, may explain what everyone is saying here: you get more at bats with that 1st job, but several years in, it's what you can do not where you are from that matters:

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"This confirms PayScale data, which shows new Stanford computer-science grads get paid 9% more than MIT grads and 28% more than Cornell grads. But Willis says his data also shows that, after two years of work experience, Stanford graduates get no premium over graduates from other schools with equal work experience."

[url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2015/04/02/stanford_graduates_get_fought_over_by_tech_companies_like_snapchat_and_have.html]Stanford Graduates Get Fought Over by Tech Companies[/url][/quote]

From https://www.businessinsider.com/snapchat-entry-level-salaries-2015-4?utm_source=slate&utm_medium=referral&utm_term=partner :

"Facebook, Google, and LinkedIn regularly pay new hires out of Stanford a salary of between $100,000 and $150,000. Those companies will offer stock grants between $100,000 and $200,000. Sometimes there are signing bonuses close to $25,000.

Snapchat isn't offering these kinds of salaries and stock grants to all new hires — just top software engineers from top computer-science programs."

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As stated above in the thread, top programs have companies like Google and Facebook fighting over their grads, largely because the best students want to go to their own startup or go to graduate school. Working 40 hours/week for a corporation is not viewed as prestigious, even when that corporation is Google/Facebook. Companies like Google/Facebook throw money at these graduates with huge signing bonuses, stocks, and higher salaries, etc.

Meanwhile, schools like UIUC, Washington, UCLA, etc. have students fighting to get into Google/Facebook etc.

And the rest, Google, Facebook etc. don't even actively recruit from there. It's throwing your resume into the internet.

Don't even start with some of the startups in Silicon Valley, who do not have the resources to go around to campuses across the country. They will recruit at the Bay Area schools, the big well known CS schools and very top universities in the east coast/midwest - that's it.

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