Oh yes but that leaves tons of brilliant people who didn&#x27;t goto any of the ivies ready to hire for those of us not wanting to compete with the SV app style startups. I used to be a bit annoyed by this attitude when I worked as a contractor at a Google data center. Well first it was still a boon to get Google anyway associated with my resume, but second I realized Google and SV and the rest were missing out on lots of brilliant engineers, makers, and programmers. Turns out hard technical problems care less about technical pedigree than humans. ;)