[freestockoption]

I like to think that I am interviewing the person and not the company. And the person defines the engineer and not the company they work for.

I try to treat everyone the same, if nothing else, but to have a baseline. Of course, I'm biased, but more towards referrals.

This makes me wonder, do some people treat those coming from a tier-100000000 company differently? Are there companies that someone might work for that would have a negative effect on them?

[twunde]

It's a lot easier to get your foot in the door when you're coming from a Google/FB/etc. In general, there's a presumption that you have been exposed and followed good practices and have a fairly strong technical background, although it's worth double-checking on some of those. More importantly, if you've worked for a company that I know follows bad practices or where other candidates I've interviewed have really flopped, you'll be tested a bit more than normal. There are really very few of the latter thankfully.

[mars4rp]

it certainly does, I worked for the past 2 years for state of California, I needed the low pressure job to work on my startup. now that it is not taking off I started to apply, but I am not getting even a phone interview!!! so negative effect defiantly exist!