<p>Not true. The OP said he was interested in something computer science-related, and my answer was geared toward that. I’ve been doing this CS stuff since 1983. I can’t think of any hiring manager I’ve known, including me, who would bring someone in or reject them because Purdue was on their resume.</p>
<p>Having an undergraduate degree from Princeton (or Stanford, MIT, CMU, Caltech) would get someone’s attention, and there’s a decent chance you’d be brought in for an interview on that basis alone. Graduating from USC (or UC Berkeley, UCLA) would be a plus, but that alone wouldn’t be any guarantee of being brought in for an interview.</p>
<p>In most high-tech companies, resumes get sent directly to hiring managers, who are the people you would be directly reporting to if you were to be hired. Those managers are more concerned with whether you have the skills to do the job than where you went to school.</p>