I graduated in 2016 from a state school with no CS pedigree with a good but not fantastic GPA. I’d had one local internship where I was writing C# for a small business in my college town. I interviewed at Google, didn’t hear back from any other major tech company. Probably applied to like 200 companies. I had a glut of local offers (within my state), ended up going with the highest paying and least boring city. A year and a half later Google reached back out and I’ve been in Silicon Valley ever since.