Prestige in US Today
<i>For example, employers have little patience with candidates who didn’t pick the most prestigious possible college or job, but were swayed by other considerations.</i><p>I don&#x27;t think this is true, at least in the tech industry. Based on my time involved in recruiting at Google and Facebook, the elite tech employers are quite happy to hire candidates who have an unusual resume, as long as something stands out that prevents their resume from being thrown out in the first place. For example, someone who worked at a low-status job for four years out of college, then worked at a hot startup for one year. Or someone with no college degree who spent time working in &quot;low-status&quot; tech roles but has one popular GitHub project.<p>You have to go through the standard &quot;tech interview&quot; grinder, but it&#x27;s very possible to succeed at that without having a high-status resume. Indeed, the great benefit of having such an onerous interview process is that it provides an opportunity for people with unimpressive resumes to stand out as an impressive candidate.