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Be True To Your CS School: LinkedIn Ranks US Schools For Job-Seeking Programmers
theodp writes "The Motley Fool reports that the Data Scientists at LinkedIn have been playing with their Big Data, ranking schools based on how successful recent grads have been at landing desirable software development jobs. Here's their Top 25: CMU, Caltech, Cornell, MIT, Princeton, Berkeley, Univ. of Washington, Duke, Michigan, Stanford, UCLA, Illinois, UT Austin, Brown, UCSD, Harvard, Rice, Penn, Univ. of Arizona, Harvey Mudd, UT Dallas, San Jose State, USC, Washington University, RIT. There's also a shorter list for the best schools for software developers at startups, which draws a dozen schools from the previously mentioned schools, and adds Columbia, Univ. of Virginia, and Univ. of Maryland College Park. If you're in a position to actually hire new graduates, how much do you care about applicants' alma maters?
a) CS is not programming
b) CS attracts many people who are terrible employees
c) Getting hired in college screens out the good ones; the grads looking for jobs failed to get employed during college
d) CS without understanding computers or programming is all to common from the +- 1 std dev colleges.
Having hired programmers now for two decades, The lowerer end colleges seem to crate a disproportionately high fraction of adequate programmers, and the best schools do create insightful computer scientists, but the 65% or so haven't given me many good employees.