>New college graduates in CS that startups love to hire aren't necessarily inexperienced: many people I know who recently graduated from CMU worked at Facebook

>New college graduates in CS that startups love to hire aren't necessarily inexperienced: many people I know who recently graduated from CMU worked at Facebook and/or Google for internships. Generally, for me to call you 'experienced' you've got to have 5-10 years of experience. Not just a summer internship. Don't get me wrong, certainly the internships are valuable. A company is almost always going to choose the kid out of college who has worked at google during the summer over the kid out of college who took summers off. You might even play them into counting month-for-month as experience, but having a summer job while in college is vastly different from having half a decade in the trenches.