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I did my Masters in CS from Georgia Tech. The amount of doors that open up just by being attached to top tier brand is astonishing. Even things like visa interviews become a formality.

Though I disagree with the "better education" part. There were some courses that were unique only to Georgia Tech or taught by professors who were well known in their field.

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Got my Bachelor's in ICS from Georgia Tech in 1984. After a layoff from Oracle in 2012, 28 years later, my recruiter said that the Georgia Tech degree opened doors and got me interviews. I was interviewing in the metro Atlanta area but still.

After 28 years your work history would trump whatever you did in school.

Amazingly the Georgia Tech degree did not prevent a layoff

Nor did MIT prevent 2 of mine when the company closed an entire office or killed an entire product. It did make the landing a lot softer and quicker I think.

Partial layoffs (20% of your job "family") are usually about the employee. Wholesale layoffs (all of a job type, all of a product team, all of a location) are generally completely independent of the specific employee, skills, capabilities, or performance.

oddly enough the GT degree is probably more respected outside of Atlanta/Georgia than in it.

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