I didn't have the privilege to be able to go to Stanford.
I didn't have the privilege to be able to go to any Ivy League University. Nor to any university in the US, for that matter - I got my Engineering degree from an unknown university in a small south american country. But I did fine in the interviews so they hired me.
So many people say "yeah, they only hire PhDs from Stanford". OK, how do I put this - no.
Sure, and there are lots of companies that don't have any policies against hiring women. It's just that everyone who does hire, happens to hire from their fraternity, or their best friend's recommendations (which are from his fraternity), etc. And it just happens that there are no women in any positions of power at that company, so nobody ever even asks the question if they should do things differently.
I didn't have the privilege to be able to go to any Ivy League University. Nor to any university in the US, for that matter - I got my Engineering degree from an unknown university in a small south american country. But I did fine in the interviews so they hired me.
So many people say "yeah, they only hire PhDs from Stanford". OK, how do I put this - no.