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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People chase after anything perceived as the best or prestige VIP. It’s why we have idiots driving recalled Cybertrucks [/quote]

This.

It’s the insecure/brand-chasing parents. They want to brag and keep up with the Joneses.

Agree that I’d give a closer look to the resume of a state school grad with excellent internships over a top name school kid.

-An HYP grad[/quote]

What if the top name school kid has excellent internships too and you can only select one for an interview? [/quote]

NP.  I've been an F500 recruiter for MBA interns.  Never heard of an internship process that interviewed only one person.

Typically there are campus teams and if a campus is visited at all there will be a full day of interviews.

When the economy is bad, the list of visited campuses slims down.  In my industry, that usually means slims down to the campuses that yield the most hires.  Which can mean jettisoning the more elite schools where students are less likely to accept an offer.

Students are evaluated on personal characteristics and knowledge once they have gotten an interview.  School stops mattering once you are in the pipeline.  In the olden days, there was some formulaic salary discrimination (schools like Wharton led to $K more in offers) but I believe that is gone.

One of the most impressive candidates and liars whom I recruited was a former Goldman Sachs analyst.  We offered him a job based on his interview and resume.  I can't convey succinctly the back story on his later revealed in-interview lying but it was memorable in a bad way.  There clearly is an extra level of polish on candidates from elite schools and elite employers.  But sometimes it's the kind of polish that leads to corporate bankruptcies, global financial crises, and Occupy Wall Street.  An ex-McKinsey executive CEO drove my grandfather's lifetime F500 employer straight into the ditch by betting wrong on nearly every big strategic decision that was made.  My conclusion is that these prestige companies don't really deserve their reputations for excellence.  They are mostly about smarts, greed, and strivery conformity.[/quote]

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