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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Top engineering firms only really actively recruit grads from the Top engineering schools.   Not that other grads won’t eventually end up somewhere.  They will just have a different path to get there.  [/quote]

Top tech companies are also actively recruiting from GMU and UMBC, not just UMCP and VT (or MIT and Caltech). [/quote]

Why? The recruiters and interviewers only have 24 hours a day. They can’t interview everyone. Top tech firms use elite schools as a first filter.[/quote]

As a hiring manager in STEM I am much more interested in which upper-level undergrad in-major electives were taken and in the applicant's specific skills. My experience is that the college they graduated from is not a significant variable of their success rate.

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In Computer Engineering I look for someone who took the OS class, the embedded systems/real-time class, and the Verilog/VHDL class -- and did well enough (B or better) in those harder classes.

For EEs, the equivalent hard courses might include the Advanced digital communications, the signal processing, and the E&M Fields. Again B or better.

Not engineering, but closely related is CS. I am looking for someone with OS internals experience (Linux, BSD, or other) which is usually the Advanced OS class, also the compilers class, the real-time/embedded systems class. Again, those are usually the harder courses. I am not so interested in someone who focused on web programming, which is much easier. Again B or better.

DCUM is addicted to perceived prestige. I can't fix that.

At the hiring time, I want to hire the students who chose the harder upper electives and got a B or better. I do not care which college they attended, though I will look for ABET accreditation if it is not one I know about. [/quote]

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