Observations from interviewing recent college graduates

ucbalumnus
Sat, 26 Nov 2016 23:16:22 +0000

suzyQ7:

As opposed to many many opportunities at companies that don’t produce software (they may produce medications, cars, insurance products, etc) where you can learn about a business or product outside of CS while working to solve problems and create automation in their CS department.

But one has to be careful to distinguish between jobs making use of CS knowledge and where the results of the work are considered valuable intellectual property, as opposed to IT jobs that are more vulnerable to outsourcing. (This is true even in the computer industry.)

suzyQ7:

I feel like if you’re working among so many other people that are just like you it must be boring, from a social person, to live in these areas vs diverse (age, sex, personality, socio-econmic status) areas across the United States where many other companies hire CS grads.

Lots of other places in the US are more homogeneous.