[fludlight]

It would be interesting to see stats on new grad engineers by college in a similar way as the very popular hard drive stats from backblaze.

I would like to test my hypothesis that grads from the top 10 cs schools as determined by US News et al. are generally good, but overvalued.

[wtvanhest]

It highly depends on how you measure value. If you measure value in terms of what they bring to the overall organization, people from top 10 schools are very likely overvalued. If you measure what value they bring to the team, top 10 schools are probably correctly valued. The difference is that the manager of the team hiring from Harvard can speak to people in more senior roles about how great their team is and how they have the best talent.

At the end of the day, value is driven by how much political leverage a hire can give a manager, not by how much value they add to the org.

[fludlight]

I was thinking of stats like this:

- % of candidates that applied contacted by company - % can fizzbuzz - % offered position - % still working at company after 6 months...