u/AliMcGraw wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Big Tech's own internal recruitment science teams tell them that hiring from Stanford is affinity bias and ends up with worse engineers than looking for qualified people from other universities and having valid qualifications screening instead of "hey buddy, did you go to Stanfor
u/michaelnovati replied ·
Well one thing for sure is that big tech will rationally invest exactly where it gets most talent that delivers performance, so whatever the reasons are and regardless if they are at a local maximum and not a global one, they prefer a Stanford grad over a bootcamp grad.
I think big tech is actually super open minded to new sources. They supported bootcamps briefly and it didn't work out.
They search far and wide - tiny little Olin College is a GREAT SOURCE of PMs!
But if they knew of talent that would boost overall company performance, they would go there, anything else is a possibility of achieving a higher maximum but not proven.