People that went to top schools - do you think the rest of us are stupid?
I didn’t get into a top school. I go to a schools ranked in the hundreds overall and 50-ish for CS. Every day I feel like dying because people from top schools look at people like me (best I’ve done is Amazon for new grad, low IQ for FB or Google) with disgust and disdain. So, if you went to Stanford, MIT etc - what do you REALLY think of the rest of us?
Well considering you work at the same company as those top school grads shouldn't you be happy? You didn't need to work as hard or have as rich of parents to get where you are.
I work at Amazon, not Facebook. If I worked at Facebook I would actually be happy. Facebook is prestigious.
Oh, nevermind you work at amazon. You're obviously trash. Must get paid 30k per year and live in a box. Sorry to hear how terrible your life turned out. Should have been smarter and tried harder to get into a top school so you could get out of the ghetto. Get off your pity party bus.
I am not from top school but i have many colleagues from top schools. I don feel arrogance from them. But i feel kinda arrogance from ex-top company colleagues.
Nope, unless they are smarter than me. Then I use my pedigree as a crutch to avoid accepting that I'm not actually a genius and just got bankrolled through life.
Too real
I feel that the average skill level from my school is higher than the other schools. That would be my 'first impression'. Skill level does mean intelligence, rather a variety of things. Discipline, breadth of experience and competence.
I have a friend from MIT and he is stupid ....
Feel bad for him to have you as a "friend".
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I went to community college in the US, got mediocre GPA because I was working 2 jobs while going to school full-time, and work at FB as pretty senior PM. Many of my colleagues went to Harvard, Stanford, MIT, etc. I find myself being just as smart as they are, they just didn't have to go through all the shit I did. It makes me proud to know I caught up with them (and surpassed in some cases)
Did you have a lot of pm experience to land a pm job at fb? Would be great if you could share your journey :)
I honestly have never looked up or paid attention to what rank my school was, either as an undergrad or a grad student. To this day I really have no idea, and don't even care enough reading this thread to check now. But my friends and I (some of which went to brand name elite schools) often mock Stanford graduates as being clones. Stereotypes go both ways.
I think less of you for this post, not for the school you went to. Lame AF.
No way. I worked hard and sacrificed to go to a top school in my field (experimental psychology) but I also got money from my parents and had lots of unearned social privilege. This kind of attitude seems especially silly for programmers. The smartest, most well rounded, most successful programmer I know is a college dropout.
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