<p>CSDude01</p>
<p>1) In CS, school name does not matter.
2) In CS, ABET accreditation does not matter.
3) There are many more companies than just Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple and Silicon Valley.</p>
<p>Each software engineer’s satisfaction level is different. Some engineers want their career to move through the best-known companies. Some care that the money is the same (because there many lesser-known companies that pay just as high salaries). Some engineers value research. </p>
<p>Remember, this is a message board and every poster will have different experiences.</p>
<p>Me?..I did not have AP credits. I never got an internship during college (GPA was flat average). My undergrad alma-mater (Michigan State Univ) ranks somewhere between 50-70 in CS. Hell, I was not even a pure CS major (I was a Math major with a “super minor” in CS)…and I was still hired right out of school by Westinghouse in Pittsburgh (back when it was a huge company). My last 9 years is being a contractor for the National Security Agency.</p>