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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To be honest, to land the top jobs with top compensation is still a crapshoot from the top schools like MIT, CMU, Stanford... Not every kid from these schools will land the top gigs, only the very best or the well-connected. The rest will just have to settle for the mid-level jobs. DH is in CS field and has had new grads from Berkeley, CMU,...working under him. He said they were good at what they were doing but not that much better than a kid from say VTech. All were getting the same pay. [/quote]
Depends on what you mean by top jobs, really.

Being well-connected doesn't help much in engineering unless you are skilled/talented too and its for a startup. They aren't working on Excel spreadsheets like bankers or Powerpoint presentations like McKinsey consultants.

The top jobs are not a crapshoot from MIT, CMU, Stanford, etc. Sure, they won't just hire you because of the name on your resume - and that's a very good thing. You will have to go through the interview process and pass it as anyone else.

But getting the interviews is simply far easier and convenient. There's a difference between submitting online applications versus well-known companies come to campus to recruit you, inviting you to recruiting events, setting up interviews just by talking to you in person, interviewing you on campus, etc. [/quote]

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