<p>Yes, Berkeley EECS and L&S CS majors benefit from two factors: Berkeley’s top reputation and large size in the subject, and proximity to Silicon Valley. The first factor attracts traveling non-local recruiters who may not be inclined to fly to lower reputation or smaller schools; the second factor means that many small companies that have limited recruiting resources can recruit without having to travel.</p>
<p>However, your school’s reputation effect becomes less important after experience in the industry. Actually, since CS has more opportunities to self-educate (inexpensive computers and free programming language interpreters and compilers) and self-credential (e.g. open source software), many non-CS majors do make their way into the computer software industry, though such method of entry is more difficult (especially during industry downturns) than the usual route of majoring in CS at a college with a decent CS degree program.</p>