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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The point is that technology has never been driven by prestige, it has always been driven by innovation. Google, Microsoft, Apple were co-founded by state university graduates. This year another internet company founded by a local state university graduate,  squarespace, will undergo IPO, likely making the founder a multi-billionaire.

However, many people from dmv believe otherwise. These people desperately try to instill a hierarchy into the IT scene. [b]They want to transplant their concept and experience of prestige in the law, lobby, and consulting into the technology industry.[/b] They make a few data point of a few graduates from elite private to support their cause. Never-mind that these jobs are in trading business that the motto is you eat what you kill, and is not pure technology. [/quote]

You hit the bulls eye. This is the crux of the matter on almost all discussions on DCUM, which may be heavily skewed by folks in law, lobby, and business, where the school name and prestige determines outcomes, where state schools are looked down upon, there is a hierarchy. In some ways even in Medicine school name carries a certain weight throughout your career, a Harvard med school doctor will always carry that with them, just like a Harvard lawyer or b-school major. Lesser known state school grads in law, business, education, and medicine will have difficulty breaking down that glass ceiling. However, Tech is all about shattering norms. Tech is all about triumph of the rebels, many of the innovators are in fact those who do not conform to a hierarchy, it is true though most of them ends up in elite schools at some point, and that's just because for the research opportunity and peer groups, but Tech doesn't care at all, when you are in a room full of engineers trying to solve problem. No one actually cares if you went to MIT or U. Alabama 15 years after you graduate in Tech, unlike those other professions.[/quote]

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