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>I can't speak for other industries but I know in tech, the college you went to is basically irrelevant 1-2 years into your career.

I would like this to be true, but I think it varies a lot. I have seen execs be very excited by name-brand degrees well past that point. And then do the same thing with name-brand companies, without inquiring much as to what a given developer did at, say, one of the FAANGs.

When I've asked, the stated theory was that those places were good at filtering for smart people, so we didn't really have to evaluate actual competence. And that is one of the theoretical functions of things like degrees, so I get what they're saying, however horrifying I find it personally.




> I would like this to be true, but I think it varies a lot. I have seen execs be very excited by name-brand degrees well past that point.

I have seen executives (in startups and small, private companies) effectively stable PhDs and others with graduate degrees because of where their degree was printed. They pay these people a lot of money to keep them on payroll because it is, whether true or supposed, a strong signal to potential investors, etc.


It also strongly selects for people who excel at jumping hoops/working within institutions.

We make it all about smarts, but smarts aren't everything in the corporate grind.


It makes sense that the best teacher-pleasers would go on to be the best executive-pleasers.




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