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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've noticed a few posters indicating that they side eye or give extra scrutiny to resumes from elite school graduates. While this may be true, it's also not relevant, because they likely don't work at places that most elite school graduates want to work. The occasional washout drifts your way, no big deal.[/quote]

FAANG is full of people who don’t just side-eye elite school graduates, they put them at the bottom of the pile (the exceptions being MIT/CMU, etc.). Sorry to break it to you. [/quote]

What is OCR and why does FAANG do it at elite schools.[/quote]

Oh, you only understand the entry-level job market.

This thread suddenly makes a lot more sense. It’s filled with people who haven’t ever had anything more than basic, entry-level jobs. Now I understand the lack of realism. [/quote]

Is there a reason you couldn’t answer pp’s question?[/quote]

Fine. OCR is on-campus recruiting. It’s done by FAANG at a variety of universities, both elite and non-elite, though FAANG has been quietly slashing their OCR programs for years, so it’s less and less relevant. At the undergraduate level, it is used to fill entry-level jobs. Many if not most of those jobs are dead-end. For instance, Google used to (and maybe still does) use OCR to fill their entry-level administrative assistant jobs because they could get large batches of students at once, so it was an efficient way to get a lot of people interviewed. The exception is as originally noted: CMU, MIT, and I would add Stanford CS to that list. But for the most part, the person who asked about OCR clearly knows very little about either FAANG or the reality of OCR.

OCR at the graduate level is entirely different than undergraduate OCR, but graduate level OCR is targeted to specific departments known to produce the skills that FAANG wants. Undergrad degree is largely irrelevant to graduate OCR. Graduate OCR is focused on internships and those jobs are not dead-end or low-skill.

In all cases, for actual engineering and non-dead-end jobs at FAANG, you have to typically show code or technical expertise. That’s done online, and increasingly outside of the OCR process entirely.

This thread makes a lot more sense when you realize that it’s filled with people who only have entry-level job experience and no FAANG experience. They don’t understand the reality of hiring. [/quote]

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