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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In today's market, [b]where you go matters to some degree[/b] (pardon the pun).

UMD has more of a national and global recognition for CS. VT does not.

There's another thread about SLO vs VT for business, and everyone on that thread is saying SLO, hands down.  SLO is a regional school (FWIW, I graduated from a CSU like SLO); VT is a national school, yet everyone there is still saying SLO is worth the OOS (SLO is in CA for those who don't know).

Yes, that other thread is about business, not CS, but IMO, it goes to show how even people here in the DC area regard VT.[/quote]

I am going to repeat it one more time.  It does NOT matter where you go to college for fields like CS or Information Technology.

I develop AI software that many recruiting companies use in screening their potential candidates.  None of them consider where you go college as a determining factor in the initial screening.  [/quote]

+100[/quote]

I would say below the top 20 schools it matters less. We asolutely target specific schools for new technical hires and they are all in the top 20. We attend job fairs, we reruit interns from them, we solicit their grads. Its not a passive ATS system when we bring on early career talent.  The top CS kids have offers by August of Junior year because there was a strong intern pipeline where these things are locked up.[/quote]

I am a tech recruiter for AWS, Azure, and Google cloud technologies, and I place candidates for F100 companies.  The company I work with is looking for in a recent grads, in this order:

1- Do you have AWS, Azure, or Google cloud certifications?  The higher certifications, the better.  By certifications, it means you have to pass exams, not just completing the course.  Last week, I placed a college junior with ZERO experience  at a F100 company because he has the AWS Certified Solutions Architect.  He used free AWS account to get it done.  The company paid him 140K/yr and he is working fully remote while finishing up his junior year.  Those certifications trump internships and the school you attend.  Btw, he is a student at GMU.

2- Do you have relevant CS courses that will make you succeed in tech?  Problem is that most schools do not teach cloud technologies.

3- Do you have relevance internship experience?  I have several candidates from CMU and UCLA looking for internships and when I asked them about cloud, they said that the universities don't teach that but they can learn that on the job.  I told them that they should have learned this on their own time but they did not.  Sadly, they didn't get those internships.

I talked to other recruiters who recruited candidates for AI/ML, and none of them said that where you go to school "matters".  [/quote]

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