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I graduated with a degree in CS from Columbia in 2007, at the peak of the finance boom. Most of my classmates at least considered a job at an i-bank; a lot of u
by squeed 13y ago
I graduated with a degree in CS from Columbia in 2007, at the peak of the finance boom. Most of my classmates at least considered a job at an i-bank; a lot of us had internships. I had a sweet job offer from Morgan Stanley waiting for me that I turned down to leave NYC for good (good riddance!). It was such a crazy time then, but it was all we knew. There was a constant stream of crazy, lavish recruiting events on campus from all the banks; it seemed like everyone was going to go work for them and that was normal.
Three years later, and the only people in my cohort who still work at the banks are those who seemed to be in the lower tier of students. Everyone else had either moved to GOOG, a start up, or San Francisco. I'd love to see what the on-campus culture is now.
- rgbrgb 13y agoI just graduated from Columbia CS last year and what you describe your friends doing now seems to be the norm for seniors looking for jobs. Google definitely had higher profile recruiting events than any of the banks. There are still a few looking at jobs in the finance sector but not nearly what I had heard about coming into Columbia.
- squeed 13y agoAwesome, glad to hear that. I was president of the ACM for a year, and we totally stuffed our budget from organizing i-bank recruiting events.
- m_ke 13y agoAs someone who's about to gradute from CU in the spring, I can confirm that banks still have a strong presence here. Like you said, most of the top CS students avoid them but their events still draw a large crowd of international students.
- asselinpaul 13y agoHow was Columbia for CS? I'm applying this year RD.