Take it with a grain of salt, because I worked mainly in the industry (automotive, telecom, medical devices).
Generally, a more generic engineer diploma includes some electrical engineering, mechanics, signal processing, and so on. Sometimes there is a bias against Epita/Epitech candidates that they are too focused on CS or IT but not on more generic knowledge. So they are seen are less well rounded candidates overall.
Designing/building system is usually not a purely abstract CS problem but requires to take into account real world constraints.
On the other hand, I assume that Epita/Epitech candidates are probably better candidate for an environment like a bank or insurance company.
EPITA student here, the thing is the majority of the student are not interested by those area, the first half are more interested going to FB, Google, Nvidia etc... or smaller companies but tech oriented than going to big telecom or medical companies like you said. The other half goes to more corporate / consulting companies because it pays well. Like you said Industry does not promote their sector in our school so no one knows about them or what they offer.
It's true that EPITA is definetely more CS oriented, but we are definetely capable of designing / building system (in IT), less in telecom / medical and even less in automotive.The reason is really simple it's because we are not passionate about these industries .
Btw EPITA is an engineering school not EPITECH so you can't really compare them they are just part of the same group.
... Epita, efrei, supinfo ... great great school everybody know this, in France au moins.
... Epitech is a very special little thing.
Sadirac, real old hacker from semantec, build just 20 year the futur of computer school: student become teacher, each test is an automatic correction ...
So, 42 is bully, in my opinion,
but Epitech remain la crème de la crème.
Generally, a more generic engineer diploma includes some electrical engineering, mechanics, signal processing, and so on. Sometimes there is a bias against Epita/Epitech candidates that they are too focused on CS or IT but not on more generic knowledge. So they are seen are less well rounded candidates overall.
Designing/building system is usually not a purely abstract CS problem but requires to take into account real world constraints.
On the other hand, I assume that Epita/Epitech candidates are probably better candidate for an environment like a bank or insurance company.