[sadamznintern]

>I presume it's Google and Facebook's extremely high hiring bar that you're attributing to elitism?

Yes and no. It's that I'm inferior and stupid for being at a lower tier company than at Facebook or Google. I can see it in every condescending hiring post about how easy it is to pass interviews without seeing similar problems before, switch companies and save for retirement and how nice it is to work at a company that treats you like an ubermensch.

>I've detected no elitism from any recruiters, interviewers, or hiring managers, and I've seen a number of people hired as interns and full time engineers as a direct result of my outreach.

I have absolutely heard of individuals from top tier schools getting easy questions while I got tougher ones, cases where people from top programs and other top companies (like Facebook) getting the benefit of a doubt in borderline situations, etc.

In some ways its even worse than at Facebook, at least at Facebook there isn't a hiring committee after a team match like there is at Google now.