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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a Googler as well but that doesn't give me any deep insights into which top colleges are most impressive. I can say we have interns and new grads from a large number of schools and have been casting a wider rather than narrower net over the last 5+ years in where people come from (yes, still a lot from Stanford and Cal though).

Focusing so much on a departmental major ranking for undergrad is a mistake to me. It isn't the same as choosing a grad program where you really are sure what you'll study and want to research. [/quote]
^ this board is obsessed with engineering. They literally can’t fathom people study other things or the value of not taking 99% of courses narrowly focused on one thing. [/quote]

No.

It's a simple recognition that it's not 1995 anymore. And the really smart kids do tend to go towards engineering, math, computer science, neuroscience, philosophy, biology, neuroscience, and so on these days.

Perhaps in your era, they went towards "business administration."

It's a different era today.

And that's ok. It's super cool that there are still communications and psyche majors out there.

Go for it. Super awesome!

But some people are going to value the hard stuff - from engineering to philosophy.

Of course, if that's not your space that's cool. Not everyone is going to self-actualize with the difficult things  
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I just hope most choose "difficult things" based on legitimate interest and also try to take classes and get experience outside of 1-2 areas.

Most non-founder leaders, even in tech, have business backgrounds. Some may have started with a little hands on coding or eng, but that is hardly the most important part of their jobs now. Leaders specifically talk about how important their non-STEM experience has been.[/quote]
The current top tech firms all have engineers as their non founder CEOs (Google, Microsoft, Apple and Nvdia (although CEO is still founder)).[/quote]

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