<p>Plenty of graduates of non-elite schools work in Silicon Valley technical jobs. The schools include UCD, UCSB, UCSC, SJSU, SFSU, CSUEB.</p>
<p>Note that many of the bigger name computer companies recruit widely, because they have more needs and more recruiting resources.</p>
<p>Being local does help for recruiting.</p>
<p>MIT and CMU may be better for Wall Street and management consulting recruiting, as school-elitism is bigger with those employers, and they are closer to NYC.</p>
<p>You can see how graduates of CS majors at different schools do in the career surveys, although caution should be used in comparing different schools due to variations in survey and reporting methodology.</p>
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