Originally Posted by i_stinks

The recruiter only know which university you come from and how many years of job experience you had. Incomplete information. So it's hard to say. She may also say it to get you to lower your expectations so you don't ask for higher pay.

For me I worked before going local uni and frankly as a poly grad I did the exact same stuffs as the local uni grads in my ex-company but my pay much lower because I'm from poly. I even get to manage uni people. After graduating from uni, when I went for interviews, all the interviewers are saying that's before university, so it doesn't count.

Which pisses me off somewhat to discount it away so quickly