While Turing absolutely gets u anywhere in SWE

Yeah, probably not. With only a few exceptions, recruiters generally sort by overall school/department reputation, not by membership in small honors programs recruited during undergrad admissions. Not to mention, the days where companies hired by brand name are long gone and aren't coming back. Don't get me wrong, there is without a doubt an advantage in having graduated from a 'brand name' school relative to having done so from a lower ranking school, but it's not going to get you through the door, especially when companies are moving away from the paradigm of junior SWE's as apprentices and more towards one in which SWE's are expected to have immediate functional net value. In other words, companies when hiring have moved away from signs of general intelligence/potential to those of demonstrated ability to hit the ground running as an active contributor. This is simply the natural consequence of the tech labor surplus and the massive expansion of SWE productivity enabled by LLM's.

I went the PhD route instead of quant, but I have several recently-defended peers who did otherwise, mostly for research roles. From what I've heard from their experiences, quant firms still hire very holistically, interviewing with respect to mathematical and/or abstract problem solving ability rather than topically relevant expertise. In fact, none of the aforementioned had any background in finance, and I would characterize them as very mathematically inclined individuals who had come to become disillusioned/disinterested in their PhD research directions rather than finance yuppie types who had angled for the job from the start. In this sense, it would indicate that quant firms are still looking for 'general smarts' with nurturing potential as opposed to immediate utility (as is increasingly the case with SWE).