For all the talk of "cognitive ability" and "behavioral interviewing," tech firms like Microsoft and Google have a similar hiring pattern to just about any other business: proximity.
That's according to Wired, which found that recruitment is typically tied to how close a college campus is to the corporate campus, with a few notable exceptions.
To find this out, Wired did a little poking around LinkedIn to find the top five "donating" schools for seven tech firms. The magazine's...