[quote=deadzone]An Ivy education is clearly not worth it for Tech, that is a fact. If anything it may be a detriment because you would be considered an outsider by most Tech professionals. For other career paths, you could certainly debate merits of Ivy or not.[/quote]
Now you’re really stretching there….
I’ve never experienced this sort of reverse discrimination simply becuase of having an Ivy league degree from a fellow tech workers that didn’t. Like you said, most other tech workers don’t give a shit (at least the really good ones), since all they cared about what how good you are. If there were anyone of them that felt that way, they clearly weren’t in a hiring position from VP all the way down that.
I’m guessing the only reason why someone might actually feel that way is if there were incompetent and felt threatened some way and had an ax to grind, like maybe at at government position (except maybe some killer NSA positions)….And if that were the case, they would be doing you favor by not hiring you because chances are that group/organization would be disfunctional and incompetent.
Then again, to some extent I tend to work with bosses that are intelligent and have a proven history of some accomplishments, that have some common personal interest, since I wouldn’t enjoy working for someone that I couldn’t respect or have no out-of-work pseudo-relationship with. And if I didn’t have a boss that I couldn’t stand or couldn’t relate to, I’d get the fvck out of that company as fast as I could.
I think it comes up many once or twice in a conversation every place I been school comes up at random occasions.. Usually goes something like this.
We end up talking about apps and cars eventually anyway…
It’s actually kinda of funny though. I did ask some of my coworkers where they want to send their kids to school when they go to college. The bosses tended to say Berkeley, Stanford, MIT. A few said, I wish my kids could stay local and go to UCSD/UCLA/Irive. And of course, some of us said, “God, I hope my kids ends up finding a better career in medicine or wall street that pays 5x more than us” for the amount of shit we go through. I don’t want my kids to be an engineer…ha ha”
