> So wait you are smart enough to get into caltech, smart enough to graduate with a degree in CS... If you got B’s in caltech CS I’d make you an offer for 200k+

> So wait you are smart enough to get into caltech, smart enough to graduate with a degree in CS... If you got B’s in caltech CS I’d make you an offer for 200k+ without blinking or even asking you anything. I went to Caltech and would definitely not do this. The CS faculty was fantastic, but the undergraduate option has some problems: - a wildly disproportionate share of cheating cases came from CS undergrads - CS graduation requirements are very flexible, which is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, giving students more freedom is broadly a good thing, and many of them use that freedom to double major or go deep into specialized grad level work. On the other hand, some of them use it to construct schedules much easier than most other options would allow. Not all of them, but enough that "B's in caltech CS" is not as strong a signal as you might think. Some signals I would consider stronger for Caltech students: - CS/Math double majors. Or CS/[Any technical subject], for that matter. - Summer research: someone paying five figures of opportunity cost to do something they think is interesting is probably not a $/effort optimizer. - Grad-level CS coursework. CS 139 (Design and Analysis of Algorithms) in particular pulls no punches.