Comment by Buge
9 years ago
It might depend on what you are hiring them for. If it's for research the elites might do better. But if it's for software engineering there might not be a difference.
9 years ago
It might depend on what you are hiring them for. If it's for research the elites might do better. But if it's for software engineering there might not be a difference.
That's possible, I can only speak to standard SWE type roles, and in those situations the inter-person variance is larger than the inter-institution variance.
Many of the top students at Berkeley, Stanford, MIT don't get standard SWE roles. They go to quant finance and make 300k straight out of undergrad. They go to PhD programs. They start a startup with YC. They do Google APM or something similar. They work as analysts in a VC firm.