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     Ashton Hero Username: Ashton Post Number: 11887 Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 64.20.45.178 Rating: N/A |
http://it-jobs.fins.com/Articles/SB130704473672721321/It-s-A ll-in-the-Risk-for-Silicon-Valley-Job-Seekers?link=FINS_hp > It's an exciting and lucrative time to be a computer scientist. Computer science graduates received more offers than their accounting counterparts for the first time since 2008, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers. Meanwhile, veteran engineers are also being recruited heavily by startups and established companies alike. > Woo's expectations are much higher. > The Facebook internship would have paid more than $20,000 for the summer, Woo said. If he had been pursuing a full-time job after graduation, rather than planning to go back to Stanford to finish his master's degree, he expected to earn between $80,000 and $120,000 a year, which is how much friends of his accepted to work at big companies like Google and Facebook. > Instead, he's accepted a $170,000 seed investment from the Y-Combinator incubator to build his own business along with two Stanford classmates, one of whom turned down an offer from Google to become an assistant product manager. |
