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Much like your attempt at appeal to authority.</p>
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<p>I would argue that depends on the level of the hiring firm. A Bain, BCG, McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Google, Microsoft, Blue Origin, Skunk Works, etc. do not restrict themselves by region. A firm trying to fill a standard process engineering position probably will look locally in addition to a few schools with a national base.</p>
<p>And even then, you’ll often see the regional hires treated differently than the national hires. I hired for one international company that had plants in rural and urban areas. The urban areas were easy to staff, but the rural areas were always a challenge. I couldn’t hire a Georgia Tech student then send him to Palatka, Florida, for instance - students would take other offers instead. So, I recruited at UF to staff the Palatka location and the GT students went to the headquarters (in a major US city). Because of proximity to the leadership and the type of work they did, the GT students had a much better chance to prove themselves and tended to move up the corporate ladder very fast. The UF students usually spent their career in Palatka because there was no one willing to rotate in if they rotated out. It was a similar story for the Iowa State grads who remained in rural Iowa and the Illinois grads who went to major urban areas.</p>