u/ausedteabag wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
What are the top tier CS schools we're talking about?
u/michaelnovati replied ·
It varies by company, at Meta they based their top school list off of the schools that top performing employees went to.
I'm sure it's changed but back then it was Stanford, MIT, Berkeley (specifically EECS), CMU, and then Harvard (a lot of early Meta people were Harvard), CalTech, University of Washington (after they expanded to Seattle but not early on) and Waterloo, Brown and Princeton.
They added UT Austin, UCLA, UCSD later.
I don't remember UIUC - it was in the mix but I don't remember when.