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>>Google, Facebook and Amazon alone probably hire around 30% of all American computer-science undergraduates that is so wrong i don't even know where to start.

• FT_intern 10y ago
  I think it would be accurate if it's 30-40% of top American CS undergraduates. I'm estimating the percent of all American undergraduates hired in those places to be ~5%.
  • thesimpsons1022 10y ago
    yeah i agree.
• CalChris 10y ago
  Let's see. Department of Labor says there were 55,367 bachelors in computer and information sciences in 2013/4. http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d15/tables/dt15_322.10.asp?current=yes http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d15/tables/dt15_322.10.as... .3 * 55367 = 16610 or about 5000 per company. Google employs 57,100. Facebook employs 12,691. Amazon employs 132,600. It's hard to say how many of those are CS grads. Yeah, count me as incredulous.
  • spyspy 10y ago
    There's no way any of them hire 5000 newly graduated programmers every year.
    • mrep 10y ago
      That does seem a little high but not too ridiculous. My company has over a thousand interns every summer and we have interns all year round.