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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP here. Couple more examples to show why the overreliance on rankings and prestige is wrong. Continuing on San Jose State example, who are the top Tech employers located in the city of San Jose, Adobe and Cisco are two of the most prominent. Where they went to school? a hit on LinkedIn shows Adobe top 3 are 1. San Jose State Univ 2. Berkeley. What about Cisco? 1. San Jose State Univ 2. Santa Clara Univ. Go figure, local schools matters to employers.[/quote]

What are their salaries?  
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What is your salary? [/quote]

You are pointing to San Jose as an example of a non-elite who has arrived.  So, it's a fair question to see if firms pay them the same salary they pay elite graduates.  I am sure silicon valley also hires code monkeys out of boot camps, and coders from India.  I doubt they get the same salary as elite college grads even if they work for the same firms.

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You should contact the San Jose graduates from linkedin and ask their salaries. Post back here. [/quote]

I’ll take this as SJS graduates do as well as code monkeys graduating from coding boot camps. [/quote]

No one cares what your believe. [/quote]

Anyone thinking about 4 years of SJU should consider a 12-week book camp. [/quote]

Anyone who thinks you can learn what you need for a successful tech career in a 12 week boot camp with no other tech experience is so far off the reservation they don't deserve a reply.

So why did I reply?

I don't know.  I feed the trolls like people feed pigeons I guess.[/quote]

Supposedly there is no difference between MIT vs SJU. So some posters say, choose SJU. By their logic, there’s no discernible difference between SJU vs a 12-week - or longer - boot camp. So by their logic, choose the boot camp. I believe the pay might be competitive without the 4 years of meaningless distribution requirements in basketweaving “cultural” classes. [/quote]
Different PP.  Again, are you talking about SJU (St Josephs, I guess?) or SJSU (San Jose State U), as the first PP was?

I don't think anyone disputes a difference between MIT and San Jose State U.  The question ought to be, in my opinion, what school is sufficient to get one's foot in whatever door, through whatever means (which may or may not include on campus recruiting and cold-emailing), and then to what extent it matters after that, if at all, later in one's career.  The rest is up to the individual, first interview and beyond.  Obviously, MIT selects the best and brightest, as it sees fit, whereas there is a much wider range of talent at schools like San Jose State U (or at St Josephs for that matter, though San Jose State U has a massive location advantage)

There seems to be a suggestion that prestige matters for CS. Well, it matters a heck of a lot less than in fields like IB.  Or is that what some of you intended to refer to?  A lot of confusion in this thread as to exactly which situations prestige matters for - and in which geographic locations.[/quote]

I guess if the prestige matters less in CS, why would you choose San Jose State when you can get your foot in the door with a boot camp - unless you are a San Jose University prestige hound. [/quote]

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