Brown, Cornell and MIT Grads not considered good enough by recruiters
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Brown, Cornell and MIT Grads not considered good enough by recruiters
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Re: Brown, Cornell and MIT Grads not considered good enough by recruiters
#2What is the point of this article?
There are some 2,000+ four year colleges in the US, and "recruiters" are only interested in grads from 3 or 4 of them? I'm a graduate researcher at the MIT Media Lab, no one I know or work with is even interested in job fairs, recruiters, etc.
That said, any company that won't look at me because I'm from MIT and not Princeton isn't the kind of place I would want to work anyway. I'm sure this sort of discrimination makes for great internal culture.
Re: Brown, Cornell and MIT Grads not considered good enough by recruiters
#3Re: Brown, Cornell and MIT Grads not considered good enough by recruiters
#4What is the point of this article? There are some 2,000+ four year colleges in the US, and "recruiters" are only interested in grads from 3 or 4 of them? I'm a graduate researcher at the MIT Media Lab, no one I know or work with is even interested in job fairs, recruiters, etc. That said, any company that won't look at me because I'm from MIT and not Princeton isn't the kind of place I would want to work anyway. I'm…
That said, any company that won't look at me because I'm from MIT and not Princeton isn't the kind of place I would want to work anyway. I'm sure this sort of discrimination makes for great internal culture.
Would you count Google in that statement -- with their notoriously discriminating hiring practices with respect to schooling?
Re: Brown, Cornell and MIT Grads not considered good enough by recruiters
#5For what it's worth, crew and student government have always been the two most-valued extracurriculars. If you're a good rower then you can get pretty much any job regardless of which college you attended.
Re: Brown, Cornell and MIT Grads not considered good enough by recruiters
#6Why is MIT so underrated against Harvard? I thought the MIT would teach top computer skills that are so valuable today in banking. Is the CS program in Harvard so much better?
Also looking at the alumni, MIT has produced quite a few successful people in banking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Massachusetts_Institute... . Of course there are much more Harvard alumni getting at this level also.
Re: Brown, Cornell and MIT Grads not considered good enough by recruiters
#7I graduated from a community college, heh. College is a way for me to maintain social approval* while I learn, and I will then use my knowledge to build my own company & fortune. Working for other people is a guaranteed way to stay middle class.
If you're worried about who is going to hire you, you're worrying about the wrong thing. Jobs are a way to obtain money, but not the best way to obtain it, if you're smart.
*You can be in college and not doing much and people think it's respectable, but if you're at home not working, hacking all day, people think you're lazy and "spending all day on the computer", despite laying the foundation for future wealth.
Re: Brown, Cornell and MIT Grads not considered good enough by recruiters
#8From the article: "According to a forthcoming paper written by Northwestern assistant professor Lauren Rivera, recruiters at top law firms, consulting agencies and investment banks" ...
Of course, it has been like that for years. I'm not sure what the news is, everybody who goes looking for these jobs (and knows what they're talking about) knows it, too.
Re: Brown, Cornell and MIT Grads not considered good enough by recruiters
#9There arent many schools, aside from maybe stanford, that can rival the combination of top notch talent and culture of innovation MIT has nurtured (and I never went there). Any company worth working for would be stupid to ignore this.
I've always had a problem with articles citing the famous "some people" (in this case "some recruiters"). Yea, there are "some (really stupid) people" out there in the world that behave in incoherent, irrational ways and make stupid business decisions. We dont need to write articles about these people and their stupid prejudices.
Re: Brown, Cornell and MIT Grads not considered good enough by recruiters
#10The article starts, "Think your Brown, Cornell or MIT degree carries weight in the professional world?" But what on earth is the "professional" world? "Top law firms, consulting agencies and investment banks."
In other words, what is being said here is that employers that emphasize pedigree and polish like to hire from schools that emphasize pedigree and polish.
Next week, somebody can publish a study saying that employers of, say, computer programmers, actuaries, and petroleum engineers actually love to hire from MIT, Caltech, Cornell, or CMU. And that would surprise me equally little.