Oh yes. While this might not be a hard, publicly facing requirement, I have seen resume review processes that took into account things like school or whether you have worked for a hip, big name tech employer.
If your sensible resume with 10 years of experience doing work on an in demand field doesn't even get a recruiter call back, it might be because you did it for an enterprise company the recruiting team doesn't really know anything about. Chances are that no engineering manager ever got to read it.
I for one have worked with people coming from all kinds of backgrounds, and I don't think that the filtering makes any sense. My favorite software engineer hire had a Physics degree from Missouri-Rolla, and whose career highlight was work at a company that makes billing software for telcos. She would not have been given the time of the day in a lot of big tech companies.
If I was leading a company's recruiting strategy today, I'd aim at those kinds of candidates: If I aim at pedigree, I am competing, both economically and prestige-wise, with all the big names in tech. If instead I aim for the kinds of people that the market undervalues, I'll close more candidates and keep them longer.
If your sensible resume with 10 years of experience doing work on an in demand field doesn't even get a recruiter call back, it might be because you did it for an enterprise company the recruiting team doesn't really know anything about. Chances are that no engineering manager ever got to read it.
I for one have worked with people coming from all kinds of backgrounds, and I don't think that the filtering makes any sense. My favorite software engineer hire had a Physics degree from Missouri-Rolla, and whose career highlight was work at a company that makes billing software for telcos. She would not have been given the time of the day in a lot of big tech companies.
If I was leading a company's recruiting strategy today, I'd aim at those kinds of candidates: If I aim at pedigree, I am competing, both economically and prestige-wise, with all the big names in tech. If instead I aim for the kinds of people that the market undervalues, I'll close more candidates and keep them longer.