No there is tremendous demand to work in those fields, a demand that is not bein...

Retric · on Nov 30, 2018

The preference at companies like google for hiring from a small list of schools is self perpetuating and drives up wages.

Worse, as with every other artificial limitation on hiring it actually lowers the quality of their employees.

zjaffee · on Nov 30, 2018

Google and other top companies don't just hire engineers from a small list of schools though, additionally, they hire tons of people from industry.

The majority of hires at FANGs went to state schools with huge student bodies and reasonable acceptance rates.

Retric · on Dec 2, 2018

preference != requirement. Some companies prefer to higher from a specific state school, that again causes them to pay more for less talented applicants.

Suppose you have two applications one with your hidden preference and one without. If your preference has say slightly less experience or requires slightly more pay, well they are a slightly better applicant in your mind so that’s ok.