"We hire from these five schools, period," right?"
I'm so glad they brought this up. This is the elephant in the living room, and is a root cause behind a lot of these issues.
The "top ten universities" fetish is by far the most significant mechanism for the perpetuation of aristocracy and aristocratic networks in our society. It's a effectively a feudal system of "knighthood," or at least analogous to that. Those who are admitted to top tier universities are tapped to be at least considered as future members of the nobility.
I'd love to see some real data on employee (and founder) performance vs. where they went to school.
I'm so glad they brought this up. This is the elephant in the living room, and is a root cause behind a lot of these issues.
The "top ten universities" fetish is by far the most significant mechanism for the perpetuation of aristocracy and aristocratic networks in our society. It's a effectively a feudal system of "knighthood," or at least analogous to that. Those who are admitted to top tier universities are tapped to be at least considered as future members of the nobility.
I'd love to see some real data on employee (and founder) performance vs. where they went to school.