I know that if the candidate is a new or recent (less than 3 years) grad, college and GPA matters as part of the hiring process. But if the candidate has been out of school for more than 5 years, how much weight/expectation do you put on a candidate who graduated from one of the top schools like Stanford/Carnegie/MIT/IVY LEAGUE/Duke/Chicago/CalTech ? (apologize if I didn't list other top schools) Do you expect more from candidates from top schools versus other schools ? I know that going to top school doesn't make that person a great thinker or problem solver - I worked with MIT and Cornell grads and they're very mediocre (I'm talking about my personal experience, not in general - so flames please). On the opposite spectrum, I worked with brilliant people from 70%+ acceptance rate schools.
They probably get the recruiters attention more, but at the end of the day we all have to pass the same interview?
I agree. I view recruiters the same as regex, i.e. job opening looking for keywords - resume has some/most of those keywords, it's a match, let them thru. It's the next stage that I'm interested to know.
It's way easier to get the interview when you're from a target.
True, your foot's in the door - now show what you got
As a hiring manager, a top school on someone’s resume definitely catches my eye but that doesn’t mean I won’t consider other experienced candidates. Everyone has to go through the same interview process.
As you interview that candidate, do you expect more from that top school candidate vs a candidate who's not from a top school ?
Fresh college grads? Yes. Experienced candidates? I want to say: Not really and it all comes down to experience but TBH I will be very disappointed if someone from top school + top company doesn’t meet our expectations during the interview. Not so disappointed from other candidates. People usually get excited to see candidates from top schools, partially cuz we have many engineers who themselves came from those top schools.
Very true.
Correct. It’s sort of buying like a bmw. You think it’s a crappy car, but everyone else loves it. So you give it a 2nd chance. And even if it doesn’t perform at least it looks good in the driveway.
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Sometimes people that went to "elite" schools have superiority complexes that makes the m very difficult to work with. Many graduates from elite schools have been told their whole life that they are the best and the brightest, and sometimes it goes to their head.
With the amount of post I see on this topic on Blind, I think the larger issue is that many people have a self imposed inferiority complex because they did not go to an “elite” school. Too many BS posts talking about Prestige and Pedigree. DF is wrong with people?
In my case, it's not about difficult to work with, they just can't solve problems that they haven't seen before. I think it's the case of book smart and not street smart (thinkers).