Purdue vs Community College CS

I am sorry if this is going way out of topic for this thread. I will just reply to the above two posts quickly and would be happy to discuss further in a separate thread or via PM.

There are many companies (e.g. those in quant or AI) that strictly hire from T50 or T25. It is not that these companies started with the elitist notion that we will only hire from T50 or filter out people from community colleges. It is that over the years, we found that we were spending too much time and resources on interviews that were not going anywhere and decided to put some filters in place. We may be missing out on some real gems out there but that is the trade-off you have to live with.

Edit: Again, I am not stating that you cannot get a job out of CC. All I am saying that this option limits the opportunities. Providing examples of the companies that do not practice such filtering does not disprove this.

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