Depending on which University you go to, it may have a well oiled recruiting machine that funnels you into a few firms. Regardless of whether you want to work a

Depending on which University you go to, it may have a well oiled recruiting machine that funnels you into a few firms. Regardless of whether you want to work at these firms or others, you want to network as much as possible with upper classmen. They're the ones who have interned/will full time at these firms, and they're the ones that will pick your resume out of a pile. Contrarily to w/e narrative people will tell you: 1. Most college junior/seniors look similar on paper. Especially after they do some GPA cutoff. 2. The recruiting process is a lot more about "fit" than you realize. The amount of "are you my kind" that goes on is more prevalent than you'd think. They can't admit to this of course. So a senior who vouch for you will go very far. General advice: open your blinders and really get to know your classmates and professors. If you go to a to research school, your professors will often publish/collaborate w/ people on the R&D side of Google, Microsoft, etc. These jobs can be very differentiated, but the pipeline into these roles go through these professors. They do not go through your university cattle call machine.