Non Ivy leagues graduates in FAANG
Do non Ivy leagues college graduates find it difficult to adjust/promote in FAANG companies?
There are very few ivy league grads in FAANG. Most people went to normal state schools and many didn't even go to college.
Ivy League grads don't have to work for big corporations -- it's beneath them. They're too busy starting their own companies, spending their trust funds, and/or running for office.
Lol bruh. This isn't finance or consulting.....
Even if it was financed and consulting. Most of the people do well without non ivy tag!
Just curious, so where do these Ivy League/good engineer school grad go?
work for the family business
Many do go to faang. But these schools have small populations so most eng are still from state schools
Nope
Most of my team is from overseas. You'll be fine.
With the exception of new hires coming right out of school, it would be really weird for school name to even come up in small talk. I worked with one guy who liked to name drop Harvard, and it probably hurt his career because he looked like a douche.
To qualify this a bit, school name comes up from time to time in normal conversation and it's not weird, but it is definitely weird if someone is namedropping their school.
I can think of fringe scenarios like talking about sports teams. But I honestly don't know where 95% of my colleagues went. Maybe that's just because I'm old.
Nope
Non ivy, non eng, 5 YOE and I’m at 290k TC this year.
pretty sure you just mean top schools in general (and top CS/Math/Eng/Phys etc departments) not ivy league specifically. i imagine the vast majority of intakes at the new grad and intern level are from top schools/departments but at the experienced hire level not so much. that said, most of the execs in my company did the whole top MBA + MBB consulting thing so probably some truth to that on the biz side (and over-representation at the early career stage on the technical side of top school/department alum probably translates into more folks at higher levels from that background).
Nope