<p>But after you’ve been working for a couple of years, nobody at your company will care where you went to
college, they will only care about how well you perform at your job.
So the college matters mostly for your first job. And the biggest differential there is what recruiters come to campus.
My company recruited out of region only at a subset of the the famous engineering schools, but for the most part recruited regionally.I think that’s pretty common. My guess is not that many northeast firms will recruit at UCLA; they would feel they can get equivalent “product” closer to home and may have a low yield of applicants who are willing to give up their suntans and invest in a winter jacket. I imagine the local Mass & some New England firms recruit at Tufts, but I’ve no idea who else does. You might ask them.</p>
<p>(note: this was cross-posted with classicrockerdad, FWIW)</p>