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You personally are the one who will be hired or not, not a fungible Georgia Tech Graduate (or otherwise). See if you can find out where previous graduates of y
by ploika 6y ago
You personally are the one who will be hired or not, not a fungible Georgia Tech Graduate (or otherwise).
See if you can find out where previous graduates of your current masters ended up, and compare it to the Georgia Tech masters. If dropping out and moving on will lead to a genuine step change in your career prospects, give it serious consideration. If it will just result in more debt and more stress for broadly similar prospects (assuming you get accepted and then succeed at the new course), just focus on learning and being employable from where you are.
I'm based in Europe so I don't know what the jobs market in the USA is truly like. I have to ask though, is it really that important to get a job at a FAANG company?
Is it genuinely the case that you won't find interesting, fulfilling and well-paid work outside of Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google? Are you even sure that you will have a great job in one of those five places?
Good-but-not-top-tier universities routinely produce very good graduates with very good prospects. Boring companies have a lot of interesting problems to solve, and lots of them let you wear jeans to work too. Google has plenty of drudgery and office politics.
If the companies you're aiming for will not consider you unless you went to one of a select few expensive elite universities, that's probably not a great reflection on them either.
- paat 6y agoYes, I actually already went on linkedIn and checked to see how many people from my school got jobs at FAANG companies (including Intel). There were very few, and most of them have non-engineering related bachelor's degrees. Only one of them was an engineer at google. When you look at Georgia Tech graduates on linkedIn, the opposite is true. Hence, me making this thread. Don't get me wrong though, my school does seem to be pretty decent at getting people local jobs. But that wasn't really my goal personally. I want to escape my home town.
- giantg2 6y agoIs that straight numbers or percentages? The bigger school has more people, making it more likely to have some get into FAANG. PSU is huge and some students go on to FAANG, but that wouldn't increase any individual's chances. If you go to someplace like Stanford or MIT, then maybe those names help you get in due to the prestige, but I don't think Georgia Tech is that level.
- paat 6y agoJust numbers. And yes you make a good point. I do think Georgia Tech is a top school for computer science though.