Suppose something different. Suppose you’re a SV employer looking for a machine learning expert. You then have an MIT (or Stanford, or Cal, or CMU) grad at the top of his class, extensive experience with TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Cafe, 3 summers internship experience at (say) Apple, Google, and Baidu, and 4 years research experience at the MIT Media Lab. Then you have the SJSU grad you mentioned. A little different outcome I’d expect.