Comment by kristopolous

Not really. That's bad faith. I've worked at lots of places, probably hired about 200 engineers over my career so far and have noticed this pattern.

I stopped looking at the educational background years ago in a fear that it would influence my bias either way. We shouldn't base someone's suitability at 40 upon what opportunities they were afforded at 17.

I do have a somewhat prestigious pedigree btw. I removed it from my resume around 2010 and never looked back