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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Anectodal. I know top firms look for grads and recruit from certain schools first.  No one is saying less than the top engineering school grads don't get engineering jobs out of school and grades do matter more so at those schools.  But for the Top Engineering and Tech companies in the country the engineering school you graduate from makes a difference.  These schools have built a reputation with these top companies for a reason. It's not by mistake.  They are the top teaching schools in the country and world for engineering and these companies that have recruited and hired their grads know just how good and well prepared they are coming from the top engineering universities.[/quote]

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