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Doesn’t seem to matter too much, other than getting the interview. Everyone begins with roughly the same starting salary. You’re better off going to an easier college and just studying (gaming) the interview process, because the same questions and types are repeated over and over again and software engineering doesn’t seem to focus much on the proof side of CS that better known schools get into. Someone with a 4.0 from MIT who messes up a question on an interview (maybe for being too analytic and spending too much time on a question) will not get an offer, whereas someone with a sub par 3.0 from community college who doesn’t mess up (e.g. they memorized a large handful of questions from a book) would get the offer.</p>
<p>This, at the least, is what I’ve learned from the interviews I’ve done.</p>