UCSD vs Cal Poly SLO vs UCLA

Ariz0na
Fri, 02 Jun 2017 18:15:16 +0000

@iulianc Sorry to revive a thread that is several months old, but this was a question I had when deciding between colleges, specifically UCLA and WUSTL. In your experience working at a large software company, is it significantly more likely for someone to get hired if the college they went to is close, location-wise, to the company? How difficult is it for someone who went to college thousands of miles away from a company to secure internships/jobs there? I ask because one of my goals is to land a job in California after I graduate; this is where I felt UCLA won. However, Wash U seemed to be the better “fit” for me as a school and as an engineering program, so I ended up choosing it. Do you have any advice on how to land an internship or job if your school doesn’t really have great connections with a specific area? Thanks.