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"Google, Facebook and Amazon alone probably hire around 30% of all American computer-science undergraduates, reckons Roelof Botha of Sequoia, a venture-capital
by arcanus 10y ago
"Google, Facebook and Amazon alone probably hire around 30% of all American computer-science undergraduates, reckons Roelof Botha of Sequoia, a venture-capital firm."
This is far more pervasive than the cream, they are getting at best the top third. That is just high demand for programmers, not a talent war.
- OilDerek 10y agoAnd with a single quote, all of my worries about finding a job after graduation disappeared. That is amazing.
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- utnick 10y agoThere is no way that is even close to true
- sadface 10y agoMaybe 30% of graduates of top 30 universities. There are lots of CS grads from lower ranked schools that are definitely not getting fought over by the likes of Google/FB/Amazon...
- JoelBennett 10y agoAgreed. I've got an MSc, and the only contact I've ever had was a practically spam message for an Amazon recruiter (who contacted half the province I live in, as near as I can figure).
- elcct 10y agoThey get the best who _want_ to work with those companies.
- JamesBarney 10y agoFor anyone who is looking for a since of scale. There are only around 52,000 total employees @ Google, and there are 3 million+ software engineers. So this quote is either out of context or wildly inaccurate.
- kafkaesq 10y agoaround 30% of all American CS graduates That can't be right -- various sources but the number of CS graduates at 40,000 per year. So that'd be 4k CS hires (apart from math and other engineering hires) per company, per year. Sounds a bit high. But like a lot of other things VCs say, it's probably not meant to be taken "literally".
- chrisabrams 10y agoIt's actually right in line.