Re: [OT] Outsourcing squared

In article <iAncg.20847$Lm5.15799@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
Hello Jim,


But quality can found in unusual place... Michigan is generally rated
right up there with MIT, also Harvey Mudd, and Rose-Hulman.


When hiring I found that the school people went to was not a very
important factor. To the point where I sometimes didn't even look that
far down the resume to compile my short list.

That depends on the company. Large companies tend to have a
"favorites" list. If your school isn't on that list you might just
as well not apply. When I worked in NY most of my cow-orkers came
from UIUC (as did I), with a few from Syracuse, RPI, and Clarkson
thrown in. Other sites had a pile of Michigan graduates, or OSU...
There weren't too many BSEEs hired from MIT though.

What mattered was what they had done on their jobs or with younger folks
what they had done outside university. For example, if a kid had
performed a lot of truly homebrew ham radio designs that was almost an
automatic qualifier for me. Those guys were true self-starters. These
were not the people who merely bought some gear and used it.

Sure, that's important. I don't think we've hired a graduate
engineer who didn't go through some sort of coop program, for
years. I worked my way through school as an electronics technician
for the university.

--
Keith
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