When someone (e.g. employer) considers school prestige, is s/he really judging you by ...

I was last asked my SAT scores when I was looking for a job about 10 years ago, and I was nearly 40 years old at the time. Now perhaps part of the reason was that my SAT was pre-1995 when it was much more of an IQ test than it is now, but it was still a surprise to me.

The job was in the finance industry. My scores were fine, but the hiring manager flat out said that there was no way he was hiring someone with an SAT Math score in the 600s.