Why, I do believe my beloved alma mater has been slandered! I need to recruit Buchheit and Eric Meyer and the ghost of A.A. Michaelson and Donald freaking Knuth and come kick your butt! ;)
No, seriously: It doesn't matter. People manage to succeed with pitiful little CWRU degrees like my own. And, obviously, many of the most successful people in the industry never went to college at all.
I have heard the occasional rumor that Google is obsessed with academic credentials. If true, that is more of a problem for them than for you.
I wasn't bashing CW, just pointing out that it was easier to get hired at Google in the early days than it is now, and picking out early hires who didn't go to Stanford isn't really representative of their current hiring practices and isn't something you should count on happening to you.
No, seriously: It doesn't matter. People manage to succeed with pitiful little CWRU degrees like my own. And, obviously, many of the most successful people in the industry never went to college at all.
I have heard the occasional rumor that Google is obsessed with academic credentials. If true, that is more of a problem for them than for you.