<p>I never post in this thread- but the title caught my eye. There is to a similar thread in the grad school area which I posted in a while back – someone was interested in google, fb, microsoft jobs.</p>
<p>I’m a CS freshman at Carnegie.</p>
<p>I had offers to interview at Intel, CIA, ebay, amazon. I didn’t get an offer at FB, google or Microsoft. My GPA is only a 3.3. My 4.0 friends had their pick of all three and enjoyed the treatment they had in some nice hotels with expensive dinners.</p>
<p>I took an offer very early in the process–so I didn’t interview or respond to the many emails I received. the range of offers of my cs friends at CMU is as low as $ 6000 (feds) for 10 weeks and those with the high gpa are going to FB for $20k plus of course the free gourmet food and the free housing. One friend of a friend got an xbox from microsoft-- he is heading to google but got to keep it. Another friend who did lots of programming before he even arrived is going to some hot aps dev company in palo alto and earning 25k - higher than even the juniors are pulling in. This seems rarely odd to all of us who know the guy- he’s not a genious either.</p>
<p>Everyone I know has a summer job lined up for the summer who is a CS or ECE major at Carnegie. Seniors in a frat I hang with also have their job offers for the fall.
Some people are going to REUs-- they are more interested in long term graduate school resume building - b/c the pay sucks.</p>
<p>Every major company has a college website-- I spammed several before our career fair and I think that’s why I got lots of offers to interview. I was able to be picky. Hit the websites-- I hear people are still getting calls for unfilled jobs. Some have strict info about gpas - clearly a deal breaker in lots of places.</p>
<p>There’s a govt website too-- that got me interested in the CIA. But the process was so long, I declined mid way through b/c all the other offers were coming through. Might have been exciting work- but they were too slow.</p>