“No I know they can’t just recruit elite campuses not enough grads there and they need someone to do the monotonous work.”
lol on this one, there are a lot of people from elite (even ivies!) colleges doing monotonous work for their manager, who did not attend an elite or ivy college.
“But if your telling me they take a top SJSU grad over a top MIT grad that is just not reality.”
It happens and it’s a reality, maybe not yours, but it’s not as uncommon as you think. As data10 points out, the internships the candidates have done can be similar, their technical knowledge similar, so it comes down to who the hiring manager and his or her team thinks is a better fit, based mainly on how they interview. Some ivy league grads come off as, I don’t know, elitist, which generally is not how you get a job in silicon valley high tech. I concede that is not how other industries work, elitism is valued in consulting, i-banking etc…