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Really cool report. Looking through the list the Google and FB numbers go up including Waymo, DeepMind, and WhatsApp. Out of about ~150 graduates at my undergr

Really cool report. Looking through the list the Google and FB numbers go up including Waymo, DeepMind, and WhatsApp. Out of about ~150 graduates at my undergrad, I think 3 went to Amazon (including myself), 1 went to Facebook, 1 went to Microsoft in a support role and the rest went to Cisco, IBM, and consulting companies. I wonder why CMU only had 6 to Amazon. That seems low! I think trading firms like JS, Two Sigma, Jump and Ansatz had more combined...

throwaway_bad 7y ago
It seems kind of asshole to say this but Amazon is considered low-tier at CMU so people don't choose it unless they got rejected from everyone else. =/ I am looking at MIT's salary survey and they have similar ratios: https://capd.mit.edu/sites/default/files/about/files/GSS2017.pdf https://capd.mit.edu/sites/default/files/about/files/GSS2017...
- akhilcacharya 7y ago
  > It seems kind of asshole to say this but Amazon is considered low-tier at CMU so people don't choose it unless they got rejected from everyone else. = Why is that? Also, MIT's distribution seems very different. Amazon and Facebook are near equal and GM takes a big chunk, which is not what I would have expected. Oracle is also around the same as my undergrad.
  - throwaway_bad 7y ago
    You work there so you probably have a better idea than I do but they have a terrible reputation externally: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17062782 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17062782
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