Amazon is More Interesting than Google
  They decide that you are an elite engineer primarily
  based on whether you went to an elite school. Elite code.
  Elite engineers. Elite schools. Elite company. How very
  elitist.

This whole "Google is elitist" meme is silly. They hired me as an SRE, and yet I didn't attend high school, went to a state college, and had something like a 3.2 GPA.Stop being so afraid of failure that you never try to succeed.