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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Name recognition among employers.  If an employer gets a resume from a kid who went to Harvard and a kid who went to University of Maryland, who do you think she'll hire?  It won't be the kid from Maryland.[/quote]

Not any employer. Ivy graduates have a reputation of being arrogant prima donnas. Of course, not all are, but this is certainly a factor outside of Big 4 management consulting, Big Law, maybe a few other narrow niches.[/quote]

This.  My dad was a division director at a large tech company and absolutely would not hire Ivy grads and did not want us applying to them.  He'd had too many bad experiences with arrogant prima donnas.

Personally, I've worked with plenty people from Ivys and most have been great but the ones who are a PITA seem to directly tie their PITA-ness to their Ivy experience -- one of the first entry level people I supervised didn't think she should have to fax stuff (a huge part of an assistant's job in those days) because she went to Penn (yes, she actually said that to me, her boss).  It definitely made me look closer for that entitlement attitude when interviewing Ivy grads, more so than those from other schools.[/quote]

I have lots of family in tech on the west coast and Google, MSFT, Amazon recruit a ton at top business schools and ivy league schools for talent -

when marissa mayer moved to yahoo, she started wanted yahoo to become more elitist in terms of the where future employees went in terms of school. [/quote]

Actually, Google has changed their hiring practices because they realized that you can find some really talented people who didn't go to top tier.

-signed a google employee who went to a state univ.
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google 'has changed' means that they had prestive-driven recruiting in the recent past.

And you also have to see for what teams/groups. I'm sure there are a lot of devs and tests that don't even have college.

Corporate Development/Corporate Strategy/Product Marketing? Not so egalitarian. [/quote]

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