u/Parky-Park wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Do you have any perspective on what makes UT Austin and UW so valuable, compared to even some of the Ivy Leagues? Also, would Georgia Tech be included in that group, too?
u/michaelnovati replied ·
Georgia Tech undergrad yeah.
I can't speak to all companies but at Facebook once the first 100 engineers were hired through networking and people who self selected into wanting to be there, there ended up going to the schools that most top employees came from lol and I remember seeing a histogram of schools and it was like Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, Harvard (because of Zuck)
The U.S. News CS undergrad list is a good start for the top 10..
A pattern though pre COVID is proximity to the company mattered so much! UW is the primary school in Seattle that feeds to MSFT, AMZN. Stanford and Berkeley for all of SV. Ivy Leagues for NYC. Austin for the Texas hardware companies. I was flown out to FB in Palo Alto from Canada for two intern interviews!