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Interesting stuff. Personally I'm from the camp of people who don't put a lot of stock in credentials. I wouldn't go so far as to say they carry no weight, but I certainly don't weight them particularly heavily, especially if I have anything else whatsoever to go on. And to the extent that I do care about, say, a college degree, I definitely am not of the mindset that "You have to have gone to an Ivy League school, or you're obviously a dolt who will never accomplish anything". In fact, I think recruiting at less prestigious schools could be a source of competitive advantage, especially for cash starved early-stage startups. Why try to compete with Google and IBM and Cisco and Microsoft, etc. for grads from Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Brown, MIT, etc., etc? Forget that, we will probably recruit at schools like North Carolina Central[1], Shaw[2], St. Augustines[3], Peace[4], Meredith[5], Wake Tech[6], Durham Tech[7], UNC-Pembroke[8], Fayetteville State University[9], NC A&T[10], Winston-Salem State[11], etc. There's talent to be had everywhere, and I doubt we'll be finding a lot of Google recruiters on those campuses. [1]: http://www.nccu.edu/ [2]: http://www.shawu.edu/ [3]: http://www.st-aug.edu/ [4]: http://www.peace.edu/ [5]: http://www.meredith.edu/ [6]: http://www.waketech.edu [7]: http://www.durhamtech.edu [8]: http://www.uncp.edu/ [9]: http://www.uncfsu.edu/ [10]: http://www.ncat.edu/ [11]: http://www.wssu.edu/ |
Their education is so much more practical and real-world-ready than my Ivy League engineering education (which was largely theoretical in nature).