<p>“Have you actually even worked in a real corporation? Do you think that people sit around saying, “Oh, Bob doesn’t fit in here, he went to Princeton and he has options we don’t”?”</p>
<p>I worked in a real corp. Long enough to know, for example, that the finance dept, marketing, ops, engineering all had their own approaches to recruiting - so that even for that one company, generalizations wouldn’t hold.</p>
<p>Fin and Marketing loved big name B schools - but didnt care nearly as much about undergrad. In ops, well they liked B school grads from schools with good ops programs, and some prior work experience in an ops area would sure help. The hiring managers probably didnt discriminate against Princeton - but once someone had left the HQ ops analysis rotation, and was sent to a field job, well they needed to be able to fit in sure enough. Which is not to say some princeton grads couldn’t manage that. OTOH I doubt many Princeton undergrads made it all the way up the ops management hierarchy. A princeton undergrad/good b school who had gotten a couple of years of ops experience at a firm like this, would be a pretty good candidate to switch into consulting.</p>