[buchanaf]

Again, I have no anecdotal experience, but I have a hard time believing that the new hires for those 3 companies are anything but students from top-tier colleges with near perfect grades. To be fair, I'm sure a couple of years of work experience and they probably don't care as much.

[dgacmu]

You might be surprised. Don't take my word for it, take Laszlo's: http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/09/technology/google-people-las...

[lawnchair_larry]

You might want to be more flexible in your beliefs. You're very wrong.