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It's probably just because I don't go to Stanford or Harvard, but I think it's silly and diversity-lacking to have almost all your hires come from those two schools. Good CS students can come from elsewhere, though they are probably a bit harder to sift out.

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It may be unfair to candidates trying to get a job at Facebook if they didn't come from Stanford or Harvard, but it's completely reasonable to focus their hiring efforts on those two schools. It makes it less work for them.

As a plus for non-Stanford/Harvard grads, it means if you don't want to work for Facebook, you have less competition from Stanford/Harvard grads!

It only takes about 25% of a company to come from one place for it to seem like "everyone" comes from there, especially if any other individual school is no more than a few percent.

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