Met a guy from Stanford and was really dissapointed at his level, exceptional case or overrated ?
Mind you I am european and don't really care about US universities but I do share the common believe that some of them are the best in the worlds and should logically receive and train the best students in the world right ?
The thing is during my last internship I had to pass on my project to the new intern which was at the end of his second year of bachelor degree in CS at Stanford.
Obviously I thought that the guy would be a total beast but I really quickly noticed that he didnt know anything practical about our job, I come from an unknown mid university in Europe and here I was explaining to the guy from Stanford basic computer system architecture and programming habits that we learn in first year. And also he wasnt learning fast at all. Tried to ask him nicely why don't he have knowledge of these basic subjects and he muttered something explaining that at his school they dont have a lot of technical classes during the first two years ?
I mean it's the only person from there that I ever met so it may just be an exceptional case but in my mind people that attend these top schools were all basically geniuses,