>>13162934>Can you go into detail about this? I have watched tech interviews (supposedly the most meritocratic since it’s supposed to basically be a series of hourlong live coding exams) where any serious probing of their knowledge stopped and they’d passed the interview as soon as they said Berkeley, and any attempt I made at actually interviewing them was heavily discouraged by the other interviewer as me being a bad sport or something. T10 and Ivy grads were consistently given leetcode easy and anyone below given much harder questions and evaluated more severely for any mistakes.
If you go to a T20 for CS and have an IQ above room temperature you can easily get $1-5M from VCs for whatever half-baked idea you have, and get infinite free press of “Princeton grads do/make X” as soon as you want it. At least a thousand people thought of Facebook, but only zuckerberg was A Harvard Dropout. Same for gates, who stole everything from a non-Ivy friend to start out with anyway. Musk would never have been at PayPal if he weren’t from UPenn. It has insane ripple effects for the rest of your life as every person you meet literally thinks you’re better, smarter, more successful than other people as soon as they know where you went.
And what rank do the benefit kick in?
Ivies/stanford/Berkeley, and after that it depends on the field, e.g. someone in CS from Carnegie Mellon will coast through life while an English degree from the same place is fucked.
