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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I used to manage a pretty good size engineering team at a FAANG. Bottom line is that we don't care where you came from as long as you can code. All of the schools being mentioned are fine, they are all very good but we really aren't paying attention to one over another except for higher level degrees and specific disciplines.

For general purpose entry level SWEs we do not care where you went. I had MIT, CalTech, SJSU, NCSU, Waterloo, SLO, Alberta, UToronto, and UCF on my team (more but that is off the top of my head) and they were all good. I don't remember a single Ivy anywhere near me but I know others who had CMU, Stony Brook, Binghamton.
 Undergraduate CS isn't that complex, it is more of a smart student learning to grind and deeply understand the basics. Kids can do great from all of the top 100 schools as long as they learn the material deeply and understand how to apply it.

I can't comment on kids looking for Quant or finance types of coding but for your typical FAANG SWE job don't overthink it.[/quote]

DC is CS major at Stanford. Had Google recruiters reach out to them for internship and FT positions. School does matter and is a factor at the resume screening stage. [/quote]

Having been one of the people in the room for this kind of stuff it matters much less than people on here believe. Someone from NCSU and someone from GT would get the same relative look. Check coursework, grades, and projects. If they passed the screening bar it was off to the races to see if they knew what we thought that they might.

Stanford is a bit different because it is local. Top students from SJSU, Santa Clara, and UCB will get the same basic treatment as Stanford despite what some might believe or want to believe. Don't get me wrong, taking the right class at Stanford might make it easier to get noticed but school name means less that what people here want to think. If I was forced to name a school outside of the bay area that got more attention than others most people on DCUM aren't going to like the answer......because the answer is Waterloo. Waterloo kids always do very well because of their internships and the mindset around them.[/quote]

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