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I don't know how many non-tech people you hangout with - but these are over reaches:

- That it's wrong to judge using school etc. when you have no other way of judging. For example, if I give you a choice of a cardiologist from hopkins vs someone from a podunk university you haven't heard of, barring no other information - I can put money on your choice being the hopkins dude:)

- The fact that you are working on crud in google is the same as crud in xyz company: No. At least in a true scotsman way, the good teams I have worked on have always had better crud apps than the worse ones.

- That they are complete douchebags. May be a few are, but that's not exclusive to non-tech. (you might not have meant this though)

IOW your familiarity might have bred some contempt / diluted the glamour. For me, I still am very proud of my history of companies.