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"This applicant went to some cow-tipper school called the University of Illinois at Chicago. Claims he had as a thesis supervisor some guy named Daniel Bernstein for his cryptography project... eh, put him in the 'Other' pile. And when he turns in his 8-hour take-home, make sure it's perfect."

That list is super weird, it isn't even a copy and paste of the top 20 schools. No Cal Tech grads allowed at Airbnb!

Wow, they are leaving a lot of great EE/CS schools out. No worries, the competition will hire them ;)

FWIW, someone else in this comment thread said they had interviews at top companies without going to a top school.

So don't necessarily count yourself out immediately. Take what I said with a grain of salt.

However, since they do have lists like that (they being unicorn-type companies, I think) they quite likely do use it as a metric- maybe not necessarily a requirement.

CalTech didn't make it, so I guess Knuth would be out of the running ;-)

Knuth taught at Stanford. He still lectures there occasionally:

http://cs.stanford.edu/~uno/news.html#lectures

Case Western Reserve University as well (he did his undergrad here).

How is CalTech not on that list? It's a conceptually-silly list to begin with, the least it could be is relatively complete.