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Who shows up to the career fair may have more to do with the university you happen to attend than a lack of hardware related internships. Cisco, Qualcomm, Intel

Who shows up to the career fair may have more to do with the university you happen to attend than a lack of hardware related internships. Cisco, Qualcomm, Intel, AMD, and Nvidia all hire college interns, and all go to college career fairs. Apple does hire college interns at college career fairs for more than home tech support. Companies only hire so many recruiters to go to so many university career fairs (which the company often pays to attend), and this has an unfortunate effect on how easy it is to be hired at a particular company from a particular university.

aspensmonster 13y ago
Indeed. It's kinda depressing to compare the company lists between Texas State and UT Austin [1,2]. Sure, many of the same companies are there. But others --like NVIDIA, Texas Instruments, Raytheon, Toshiba, Verizon-- are only to be found on UT Austin's list. And of course the sizes are quite different. Texas State had 50 something companies in total while UT Austin was able to pull in over 200. And UT Austin certainly seemed able to pull in far more CS companies too. Rackspace's absence at Texas State's career fair was particularly conspicuous to me. A part of me would love to chalk this up to the privileges of hailing from a more elite alma mater, but I also wouldn't be too surprised if the EE and CE students at UT Austin ran into the same issues that we did here at Texas State. While many of the companies at the Cockrell School of Engineering's "EXPO", as they call it, bill themselves as looking at "Electrical & Computer Engineering" students, the actual "concentration areas" look more like: "Computational Science, Engineering, and Mathematics." Texas Instruments is but one example [3]. Granted, seeing as I'm not a student at UT Austin, I couldn't tell anyone whether my suspicions bear any resemblance to reality or not. [1] UT-Austin: https://apps.engr.utexas.edu/ecac/events/expo/Students/browse.cfm https://apps.engr.utexas.edu/ecac/events/expo/Students/brows... [2] Texas State: https://www.myinterfase.com/txstate/Search/ViewEmployers/Index/K0FYdWRjelo5bEhlREw1eHlacnNCWDJFUHNVc1ZNNlNnc3MwUFlnSGk0UT01 https://www.myinterfase.com/txstate/Search/ViewEmployers/Ind... [3] https://apps.engr.utexas.edu/ecac/events/expo/Students/showCompany.cfm?id=3207 https://apps.engr.utexas.edu/ecac/events/expo/Students/showC...

aspensmonster 13y ago

Indeed. It's kinda depressing to compare the company lists between Texas State and UT Austin [1,2]. Sure, many of the same companies are there. But others --like NVIDIA, Texas Instruments, Raytheon, Toshiba, Verizon-- are only to be found on UT Austin's list. And of course the sizes are quite different. Texas State had 50 something companies in total while UT Austin was able to pull in over 200. And UT Austin certainly seemed able to pull in far more CS companies too. Rackspace's absence at Texas State's career fair was particularly conspicuous to me. A part of me would love to chalk this up to the privileges of hailing from a more elite alma mater, but I also wouldn't be too surprised if the EE and CE students at UT Austin ran into the same issues that we did here at Texas State. While many of the companies at the Cockrell School of Engineering's "EXPO", as they call it, bill themselves as looking at "Electrical & Computer Engineering" students, the actual "concentration areas" look more like: "Computational Science, Engineering, and Mathematics." Texas Instruments is but one example [3]. Granted, seeing as I'm not a student at UT Austin, I couldn't tell anyone whether my suspicions bear any resemblance to reality or not. [1] UT-Austin: https://apps.engr.utexas.edu/ecac/events/expo/Students/browse.cfm https://apps.engr.utexas.edu/ecac/events/expo/Students/brows... [2] Texas State: https://www.myinterfase.com/txstate/Search/ViewEmployers/Index/K0FYdWRjelo5bEhlREw1eHlacnNCWDJFUHNVc1ZNNlNnc3MwUFlnSGk0UT01 https://www.myinterfase.com/txstate/Search/ViewEmployers/Ind... [3] https://apps.engr.utexas.edu/ecac/events/expo/Students/showCompany.cfm?id=3207 https://apps.engr.utexas.edu/ecac/events/expo/Students/showC...