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Ask HN: What does "Recent Grad" or "New Grad" mean?
I see ads for Data Scientist positions in the SF Bay Area that are labelled "Recent Grad" or "New Grad," from companies such as Khan Academy, Twitter, Netflix, Linkedin.
I was surprised, and somewhat discouraged, since I thought this was not legal, but these places are big enough to afford lawyers, so perhaps it's OK. But even if they can't come right out and say "age-limited job," there is a clear hint as to their intentions.
Has anyone outside of the requested demographic had experience answering these kinds of ads? Were you able to get an interview? What does "recent grad" really mean in this context?
- recurse 14y agoI am a recent grad and got job offers from 5 different companies in bay area. Well, recent grad or new grad means a bachelor/masters student who is on either varge of graduation, finished with his all school work or the one who graduated in 2-3 months and looking for jobs. I had applied for jobs when I was almost done with my school work, I was just left with my defense, I had started applying for jobs from sept 2012 and got few offers by november 2012, meanwhile I was working on my masters project too. Then, after 5 offers I stopped applying for jobs and chose an offer where i wanted to work. On december 17th I defended my project and joined the company on 18th december. Hope it helped.
- jsnk 14y agoI requested the info for a company. The new grads were defined as soon-to-graduate senior undergrad students to upto 6 months out of school. I presume others follow similar time frame.