[MarkBook]

OTOH some colleges are easer to get degrees from than others. I'd be more impressed with a CS degree from MIT than pretty much anywhere else. For starters you were no mug to accepted there in the first place. While there you would have benefited from interaction with a high achieving peer group. And the teaching would probably be pretty good as well. Actually if you were from MIT and you wanted to work for me I'd be wondering what's wrong with you!

[bl4k]

well I was speaking from experience. Two Stanford comp sci grads, were hired based on that (I didn't hire them, but I did have to manage them). Both turned out to be net negatives to our team. Big learning experience to look beyond the school and degree (I even remember a comment from somebody when I started the process to dismiss one of these people - 'how bad can he/she be, he/she has a degree from Stanford').

On the other hand there was another group of 4 guys who all either dropped out of school or never went, and they are all some of the best devs I have ever worked with.