Stanford grads have a tendency to target high technology companies given their proximity to Silicon Valley. They would prefer to take their chances on a hot startup (i.e. Google pre-IPO) than settle for a safe bet (McKinsey) like their Harvard counter-parts. (click here to enlarge image)

There’s been a lot of hub-bub about talent wars between Silicon Valley giants. We wanted to understand who’s actually winning and losing the war. We dug into our data and found some interesting insights. Based on our user-base who have changed jobs in the last 2 years, we looked at which companies people left and which ones they joined. Check out the results.

Applying for a job now joins tennis, checkers, ballrooom dancing and sex as yet another activity that is best executed with 2 (or more) participants…