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by bl4k 5791 days ago
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.