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by flente 3125 days ago
No, I work at one of the companies mentioned in the post. These are typical salaries for devs without exotic specializations.
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Redoubts 3125 days ago
Yeah, same impression here. Though it seems slightly aggressive for two years non-ivy.
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akhilcacharya 3125 days ago
Why would the school matter?

I thought this industry keeps crowing about how “school doesn’t matter”?

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adventured 3125 days ago
Because Berkeley, Stanford, MIT and Harvard produce radically superior computer science students vs the average community college.

That doesn't mean no talent comes out of community colleges. It means the average ability level is far lower and the elite students are far more rare.

The school doesn't matter much if you have the ability and can demonstrate it. The kind of grads coming out of elite schools that Google & Co are recruiting, tend to have both the ability and the school. The schools, and the professors there, help more often than not with filtering.

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akhilcacharya 3125 days ago
As someone that didn’t work at Google/FB and goes to a state school, Well, thanks for the vote of confidence!
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astrange 3125 days ago
CS schools don’t matter because they’re so bad at teaching that any student from the #3 school or below is probably useless unless they’re self taught. But if it’s Stanford they’ll be okay.
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