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[quote=Anonymous][quote]- SE for over 30 years - and in my 30+ years, I have NEVER encountered anyone discussing what school they went to in detail. Maybe just a casual mention, an oh btw sort of thing. I don't even know if anyone my current team has a college degree. I bet most don't or if they do, it probably is not even in CS, and they're all make between 150 - 200k, some more. I graduated with an ISM degree in '84.[/quote]

I get what you are saying.  I have a lot of friends in software, and some of them don't even have college degrees.  Some have masters degrees, but most just have bachelors.  They come from all kinds of schools.  This whole notion of needing to go to grad school to not be a drone doesn't really make sense to me--but I'm not a software engineer.  I'm just noticing from the outside.  Nearly all of them make six figures.

However, among people I know who went to Caltech, Stanford, Berkeley, or MIT who are applied math and computer science types, they seemed to have an easier time getting a software developer or engineer job at places like Facebook, Apple, Google, etc. perhaps just because those companies recruit there.  I know there are a lot of high paying jobs at other companies, but it did seem to make a difference.  Maybe just because those people were typically just really smart (hence able to get into super competitive schools) and talented programmers anyway, and would have done well wherever.[/quote]

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