Recruiter accidently emailed me her secret internal selection guidelines 👀

Yeah good question and I love you are asking for sourcing I push on sourcing a lot on Reddit :D. It's me summarizing a bunch of high level studies over the years, but I think the biggest flaw is that the growth and leadership might be also related to them getting top tier positions earlier in their careers. It's generally found in studies that Stanford and MIT grads start off higher and grow faster in salary etc... In terms of this conversation specifically, I'm basing it off of who Meta recruited from and their rationale at the time. I would ease up on the "performing better" because it was really based on who was "still there" and the histogram of schools they came from and to survive there you had to perform well. This was back in 2009 to 2012 era and it might not be true today anymore. I'm aware that Stanford remains a top demand school with dedicated recruiters, events, wining and dining students, so I presume it's still a good top source of talent. But the complexity is also a good reminder to qualify statements more because my statement is very broad.