Grades and where you went to school doesn't matter.

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Also, according to the article, a shoe doesn't matter either.

Yet an overwhelming number come from Stanford. These overly general blanket statements do not reflect reality. Because a few outliers from non-competitive schools are employed by the most in demand employer does not mean that companies are not partial to school choice and grades. This argument is like a company pointing to their one black employee out of 600 and saying, "you see, we embrace diversity!, and shoes don't work!".

The top four colleges for Google employees as extrapolated from LinkedIn.

1. Stanford
2. UC Berkley
3. Carnegie Mellon
4. MIT

For fun, I did find one employee who had both a degree from Columbia Southern U (an NA degree) AND graduated from TESC. He also had 28 years in the Navy as a Nuclear Tech. I'm sure there are more examples.

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/jeff-wyatt/54/0/916

Moral of the story, where you went to school and your grades do help you in life, but are less important the more experience you have and hence the more value you have to a company.

Saying that they do not matter is glossing over the issue.

Do you know what the CSU degree is in?