[gharman]

I'll raise my hand as a data point. MIT, about 20 years out. It still seems to carry significant weight. I don't even work in the field I studied, so it's definitely not about any particular material I may have learned there. My conjecture is that association with the MIT brand implies that I must be a sharp cookie and someone worth paying attention to.

[urthor]

One trick savvy folk do, and this is beyond effective.

They take these two week courses at these universities. And then they put it at the top of the "education" section of their resume.

It's like $99.99 prices.

Against all human logic, people just cannot look past the magic words "Harvard University." And people aren't dumb, they know it's a two week, meaningless course.

Doesn't matter. Lizard brain sees Harvard.