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<p>Actually, the Brown and one of the CUNY alums are early 30 somethings with around 10 or more years of professional working experience each. It’s just the CUNY alum recounted it being much harder to get interviews and hired over the years. </p>
<p>And sometimes, some employers can be prejudiced for/against certain academic institutions. </p>
<p>I experienced this firsthand while interviewing at a financial institution in the Boston area where I knew the interview was going to go south within the first few minutes the moment the interviewer saw the name of my undergrad institution and made comments about it being a college full of “radical lefty protestors”. </p>
<p>Only consolation was later finding out that financial institution went under and closed its doors some years later. </p>