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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Got my PhD from Georgia Tech in ChemE but at work, folks only care about if you are from an Ivy, Stanford. I work in Government as a civilian and we spending so much money on DEI and still only Ivy folks get selected.

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Are your colleagues engineers? Do you mean ivy engineers are picked over Georgia Tech? That shocks me only because GT is a top tier engineering school [/quote]

With any Tech degree - you need soft skills as well; guess what got kids into Ivy Grad School?  With a tech degree the two highest paying jobs start at the people end - Sales Engineering, then consulting, then engineering, ... I went to interviews where they said they prefer Ivy over MIT or Caltech because they find better people skills. I've hired/rejected UVA CS Grads because of people skills.

If you are outside Georgia - GT is ranked up there; you probably need an MBA network class or such.

You are correct - when you are blindly sending resumes right before graduation then yes - the Ivies matter. After 1-2 years, if you have "Ivy" on your resume then you have a target to hit. The expectation is that you need to perform better than a GMU or VCU kid. The GMU/VCU kid might make lower than you - initially, so you better bring it. [/quote]

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