If you care about diversity, don't just hire from the same five schools
When I was at Google, I was asked if I wanted to make a recruiting trip to my alma mater.   I was excited until I found out they were talking about my grad school where I got my MS, and not UB, a large state school where I got my BS.   I told them I&#x27;d be happy to take a trip to recruit at UB.  I got mostly crickets back from that reply. However, I ended up getting signed up for a series where they had a panel of a few HR (sorry, &quot;people ops&quot;) folks and a SWE or two talking over Google Hangouts to auditoriums full of kids at <i>FIVE</i> different schools which they called &quot;Long Tail&quot;.   (and UB wasn&#x27;t even one of them)<p>I think they are missing an incredible amount of talent this way.  In my circle of friends, there were 3-4 other people that Google would have been lucky to have, and two of them were women  They just don&#x27;t understand that some people like me, who can get into the (mostly private) elite schools choose to go to a &quot;long tail&quot; school for a variety of reasons (financial, family obligations, etc).  There are lots of similar schools all over the country.