u/Yourza wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
I think someone who goes to even a top-100 school, meets the leetcode bar, and has personal projects they can speak intelligently about is probably fine for finding non-FAANG jobs. That job hunt is probably more like 8-12 months nowadays than the 0-3 months it was in the 2010s, b
u/michaelnovati replied ·
I agree the jobs are there, it's just harder! If you go to like University of Wisconsin for example (around 20th or so) then you have friends and upperclass people who work at top companies, and recruiters on campus dedicated to you etc...
It's a heck of a lot easier.
Meta didn't recruit at my school and I fought my way in exactly with your advice - amazing project that stood out as the number #1 project of the school. Whereas people at the University next door had dedicated Meta pipelines and almost a guaranteed interview if you had a high GPA or referral.
If you are extremely smart, a natural with leetcode, and very ambitious, you could probably go to to a top 100 school and get a job.... just statistically lower chance.