I looked up linkedin profiles for people that work at a range of FAANG and big tech companies. The vast majority of profiles I have seen all happen to be either from UC’s, Stanford, or Waterloo.
Why do tech companies discriminate towards state schools?
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Recruiters have to find the right balance here. The claim is that if you make it through a top tier school, you will likely have all three of these things. That's why they're top tier schools. But obviously this isn't always the case and those that just try to ride in their school name crash and burn.
If you don't go to one, you still have to prove yourself in all three of these areas, just like they have to, in the interviews and whatnot. You might just not have had as much experience as them and is something you have to work on to get an edge over them.
I’m a current senior at NC state in CS. I have managed to get related experience in building Java applications for consumer tech and enterprise. I have applied to a Java engineering roles and I can barely get any attention from recruiters. There is a LinkedIn feature where I can see the people that are recruited for the job roles that I have applied for. I happen to lookup the people that took over SDE1 Java roles and they all happen to UC people with 0 related experience and limited “research” and TA experience. I’m not saying that it is unfair. But I feel like we are constantly being classified/misjudged/underrepresented for the undergraduate school that we go to
And unfortunately, prestige does “matter”. Not every FAANG engineer is better than every small startup engineer, quite the opposite in some cases. I agree it can be unfair - the job market for new grads is just difficult right now, so you’re going to see biases no matter what.
(I didn’t goto Stanford)