How easy is it to get a CS job after graduating?

BrownParent
Sat, 21 Mar 2015 06:14:28 +0000

First, you originally left off important information that you are an international. So you will be subject to CPT/OPT restrictions on internships and employment, and eventually H1B visa sponsors. If you think you have no restrictions you are delusional and in for very hard awakening.

Second, the person you got this in-state-only information from is an unemployed math undergraduate. they have no idea what they are talking about. They have little experience job hunting. That information was so wildly exaggerated as to be worthless. To think that employers in Boston are not going to hire employees who went to RI colleges is ludicrous. Technically not in the same state means nothing to anyone. The ‘local’ argument does not even hold up as they are an hour away.

In general employers do tend to hire and recruit from local universities. It is not from any prejudice but because it is extremely convenient and they are comfortable with the level of skills of students coming out of that college. However many larger companies hire and recruit nationally. When you are talking about a university like Brown you are talking about a small pool from an elite department and they are employable anywhere. They are a small department so you won’t see them is as mass numbers anywhere. Even a MS from another uni and you will get looked at wherever you apply, most likely.

Maybe a math grad with no CS degree, jobs or internships applying across the country may have a harder time if they are not promoting themselves well. You yourself have a BS and MS in CE and work experience and will also have a MS in CS. The only thing that you are going to have to deal with is employers who have to deal with J1B and the oddness of having to have 2 MS to be employable.