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FWIW, I’ve worked with some very talented college students from lesser-known universities who were able to land FAANG jobs at graduation. They weren’t directly
by PragmaticPulp 5y ago
FWIW, I’ve worked with some very talented college students from lesser-known universities who were able to land FAANG jobs at graduation. They weren’t directly recruited, but their applications were still taken seriously, at least at the time (few years back)
A parallel problem I’m seeing is that much of the internet advice for juniors is written as if the world revolves around FAANG companies. A lot of the local college students I’ve mentored slate convinced that a reasonable starting compensation is $200K for 1st year CS graduates at every company and that they’re going to get it by playing a game where they interview at 5 different companies simultaneously and make them bid against each other. It’s a shock when they enter the job market and realize companies aren’t in a rush to pay them Google-level salaries for basic webdev or app development work.
It’s bad enough that when I start talking to new mentees I can almost guess which internet communities and even blog posts they’ve been using to gather their view of CS jobs.
- jackson1442 5y ago> FWIW, I’ve worked with some very talented college students from lesser-known universities who were able to land FAANG jobs at graduation. They weren’t directly recruited, but their applications were still taken seriously, at least at the time Can confirm. I come from an average state school and landed a FAANG internship for next summer. I always try to get my foot in the door early so there’s still undeniably plenty of spots left because if it comes down to two equally qualified candidates, they’re probably picking the Stanford student over the other student.
- _fat_santa 5y ago> A parallel problem I’m seeing is that much of the internet advice for juniors is written as if the world revolves around FAANG companies. I see this sentiment on Reddit so much that at times I wonder how much of "everyone is rejecting juniors" can be attributed to juniors applying to only FAANG's and getting rejected. Regarding the unreasonable salary expectations, I think that's just case of students seeing insane salaries in the Bay Area and thinking that it's reflective of the entire industry rather than a response to the insane cost of living in the bay area. A new-grad making $200k per year sounds insane on paper, until you realize that a studio apartment near the office is going to run you $4k/month
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