Re:The STEM Crisis Is a Myth (2013)
by thinkharderdev on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @12:39PM
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For sure, it's a lot easier for people who did undergrad at Standord/MIT/CM to get the internship (and the FTE role). But we shouldn't confuse "Stanford CS grads are overrepresented in high-end engineering roles" with "most high-end engineering roles are done by Stanford CS grads". Most people doing this kind of work went to a college you never heard of and maybe didn't even study CS.
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Re:The STEM Crisis Is a Myth (2013)
by majormajor on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @01:13PM
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Oh, I think the pool is a lot larger than that. I've seen pretty good industry hiring representation at a bunch of first-and-second-tier non-Ivies, includes UCSD, Washington, Waterloo, Purdue, Chicago, UTexas, UCLA, and a lot of others. (And similarly, the company base is a lot broader than just FAANG.)
I bet there's a set of 20 or so schools, though, that make up a disproportionate amount of those high-paying jobs, though certainly the long tail is very long.
Re:The STEM Crisis Is a Myth (2013)
by 908B64B197 on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @06:27PM
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> a bunch of first-and-second-tier non-Ivies, includes UCSD, Washington, Waterloo, Purdue, Chicago, UTexas, UCLA, and a lot of others.
You are putting schools of vastly different calibers in the same bucket there.