Are there ANY COMPUTER SCIENCE related jobs out there?

[MAME]

Looking for COMPUTER SCIENCE related jobs in San Diego for an entry level position is getting to be a pain in the ass. I haven't seen much, if any, listings that don't require over 2 years of experience.

I can't get experience without a job, I can't get a job without experience :|

 

[yllus]

Counter-Strike jobs? Not too many.

 

[Chrono]

Counter-Strike jobs are a pain in the neck to get d00d. You probably suck at Counter-Strike and rely on dumb h4x.

 

[brunswickite]

I had a CS job, but they caught me using a wall hack... sucks I got demoted to the Minesweeper group.

 

[EyeMWing]

Did you intern anywhere? No? Oops.

 

[Ricemarine]

Originally posted by: brunswickite
I had a CS job, but they caught me using a wall hack... sucks I got demoted to the Minesweeper group.

ROFL...


Um, if you really needed to to Counterstrike, go visit Steam located in Bellevue, WA.

 

[remagavon]

There are plenty of CS jobs, you just have to have a decent GPA out of college and you should have done some co-op through your college. Most every college offers some type of co-op as long as you're a dedicated student. Virtually everyone that complains about the lack of tech jobs screwed off in school and has a sub 3.0gpa, and never tried to excel in anything beyond homework (i.e. internships).

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: remagavon
There are plenty of CS jobs, you just have to have a decent GPA out of college and you should have done some co-op through your college. Most every college offers some type of co-op as long as you're a dedicated student. Virtually everyone that complains about the lack of tech jobs screwed off in school and has a sub 3.0gpa, and never tried to excel in anything beyond homework (i.e. internships).

Precisely. <insert BS from kids who didn't do an internship because they "had a job" and don't realize that most internships are PAID and pay WAY better than retail>

 

[Cooler]

Yes I have one as a programmer as Nasa.
Just start sending your stuff to bunch of goverment instutions or colleges.

 

[MAME]

Originally posted by: remagavon
There are plenty of CS jobs, you just have to have a decent GPA out of college and you should have done some co-op through your college. Most every college offers some type of co-op as long as you're a dedicated student. Virtually everyone that complains about the lack of tech jobs screwed off in school and has a sub 3.0gpa, and never tried to excel in anything beyond homework (i.e. internships).

my gpa was a 3.4, nothing great but I didn't screw around.

honestly, there wasn't much in the ways of internships in my area. I didn't have a long enough break between classes to make it to an internship at a standard 9-5 company

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: Cooler
Yes I have one as a programmer as Nasa.
Just start sending your stuff to bunch of goverment instutions or colleges.

Good point. When in doubt, call up the school you graduated from and talk to someone in their tech offices. There's always some kind of menial programming you can do.

And if you graduated from Penn State, I can almost GUARANTEE that some openings will be appearing in the webmail development team in the coming week as they slowly get murdered by angry people who can't get their email

 

[yllus]

Originally posted by: brunswickite
I had a CS job, but they caught me using a wall hack... sucks I got demoted to the Minesweeper group.

Dude...lol. That was awesome.

In all seriousness though, it's about what you can put on your resume. I stand before you as a sub-3.0 GPA student - hell, at one point it was a sub-2.0 GPA - but my resume is pretty heavy with industry experience. If this goes on for a while longer, you might want to debate forgetting about pay for a while and do volunteer work - there's an unlimited amount of people out there looking for educated developers on a budget.

 

[AgentEL]

Where did you go to school?

 

[ArmchairAthlete]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Did you intern anywhere? No? Oops.

yup, I'll have 2 years coop experience when I graduate.

I didn't have a long enough break between classes to make it to an internship at a standard 9-5 company

That's not how it works usually. You work full time between semesters of full time classes. Should've looked into this further and you might have a job right now...

 

[MAME]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing

Originally posted by: Cooler
Yes I have one as a programmer as Nasa.
Just start sending your stuff to bunch of goverment instutions or colleges.

Good point. When in doubt, call up the school you graduated from and talk to someone in their tech offices. There's always some kind of menial programming you can do.

And if you graduated from Penn State, I can almost GUARANTEE that some openings will be appearing in the webmail development team in the coming week as they slowly get murdered by angry people who can't get their email

I live 550 miles from my college, otherwise I would have gotten a job there

 

[MAME]

Originally posted by: AgentEL
Where did you go to school?

Sonoma State

 

[EmperorIQ]

Originally posted by: MAME

Originally posted by: remagavon
There are plenty of CS jobs, you just have to have a decent GPA out of college and you should have done some co-op through your college. Most every college offers some type of co-op as long as you're a dedicated student. Virtually everyone that complains about the lack of tech jobs screwed off in school and has a sub 3.0gpa, and never tried to excel in anything beyond homework (i.e. internships).

my gpa was a 3.4, nothing great but I didn't screw around.

honestly, there wasn't much in the ways of internships in my area. I didn't have a long enough break between classes to make it to an internship at a standard 9-5 company

this is what worries me, here are some of my stats, can some of you guys tell me if i have good chance in finding a job?

- cumulative GPA: 2.91 (screwed around 1st and 2nd year)
- Upper division GPA 3.3+
- very active officer of 3 engineering clubs on campus (organizing info session, social events for engineers, design webpages, build parts of content management for engineer alumni advisory board)
- worked as a web developer for 2 years (creating databases, writing many content management pages, performed cost analysis of projects, sort of IT work)
- done research on financial applications, using beowulf clusters to parallelize algorithms
- doing research on robots, programming/building directional antennas which will eventually be used for field testing

I'm really hoping that this will get me in, and I do understand that my first 2 years of screwing around will screw me =(

 

[RabidMongoose]

When I was doing my job search it seemed that there were tons of computer science jobs out there. I had plenty of interviews, but I also had an MSEE. It might be a little different for someone with only an undergraduate degree.

Since you're in the San Diego area, maybe you should try to see if General Atomics is hiring any CS people. I interviewed there a little while back and they were interviewing tons of people.

 

[chambersc]

Originally posted by: MAME

Originally posted by: remagavon
There are plenty of CS jobs, you just have to have a decent GPA out of college and you should have done some co-op through your college. Most every college offers some type of co-op as long as you're a dedicated student. Virtually everyone that complains about the lack of tech jobs screwed off in school and has a sub 3.0gpa, and never tried to excel in anything beyond homework (i.e. internships).

my gpa was a 3.4, nothing great but I didn't screw around.

honestly, there wasn't much in the ways of internships in my area. I didn't have a long enough break between classes to make it to an internship at a standard 9-5 company

honestly, go talk to the department that deals with internships and co-ops. they have a whole department with offices that help students JUST like you.

who this works is usually you'll do your normal schooling in the fall/spring semester(s) and then intern throughout the summer. that way you a) get your schooling in and b) get your internship experience (most if not all internships give you SOME college credit and a nice paycheck for your time).

 

[remagavon]

Originally posted by: chambersc

Originally posted by: MAME

Originally posted by: remagavon
There are plenty of CS jobs, you just have to have a decent GPA out of college and you should have done some co-op through your college. Most every college offers some type of co-op as long as you're a dedicated student. Virtually everyone that complains about the lack of tech jobs screwed off in school and has a sub 3.0gpa, and never tried to excel in anything beyond homework (i.e. internships).

my gpa was a 3.4, nothing great but I didn't screw around.

honestly, there wasn't much in the ways of internships in my area. I didn't have a long enough break between classes to make it to an internship at a standard 9-5 company

honestly, go talk to the department that deals with internships and co-ops. they have a whole department with offices that help students JUST like you.

who this works is usually you'll do your normal schooling in the fall/spring semester(s) and then intern throughout the summer. that way you a) get your schooling in and b) get your internship experience (most if not all internships give you SOME college credit and a nice paycheck for your time).

Yeah, talk to your department chair or something if you have to. There are jobs available if you look. Getting a degree and searching monster won't cut it anymore as too many people are finding out.

 

[Platypus]

Move to India.

 

[MAME]

Originally posted by: chambersc

Originally posted by: MAME

Originally posted by: remagavon
There are plenty of CS jobs, you just have to have a decent GPA out of college and you should have done some co-op through your college. Most every college offers some type of co-op as long as you're a dedicated student. Virtually everyone that complains about the lack of tech jobs screwed off in school and has a sub 3.0gpa, and never tried to excel in anything beyond homework (i.e. internships).

my gpa was a 3.4, nothing great but I didn't screw around.

honestly, there wasn't much in the ways of internships in my area. I didn't have a long enough break between classes to make it to an internship at a standard 9-5 company

honestly, go talk to the department that deals with internships and co-ops. they have a whole department with offices that help students JUST like you.

who this works is usually you'll do your normal schooling in the fall/spring semester(s) and then intern throughout the summer. that way you a) get your schooling in and b) get your internship experience (most if not all internships give you SOME college credit and a nice paycheck for your time).

we don't have a department like that really. Some tech companies talk to our CS chair, that's about it for CS related stuff. And it's 550 miles away, so they aren't even applicable to me

 

[remagavon]

Originally posted by: MAME

Originally posted by: chambersc

Originally posted by: MAME

Originally posted by: remagavon
There are plenty of CS jobs, you just have to have a decent GPA out of college and you should have done some co-op through your college. Most every college offers some type of co-op as long as you're a dedicated student. Virtually everyone that complains about the lack of tech jobs screwed off in school and has a sub 3.0gpa, and never tried to excel in anything beyond homework (i.e. internships).

my gpa was a 3.4, nothing great but I didn't screw around.

honestly, there wasn't much in the ways of internships in my area. I didn't have a long enough break between classes to make it to an internship at a standard 9-5 company

honestly, go talk to the department that deals with internships and co-ops. they have a whole department with offices that help students JUST like you.

who this works is usually you'll do your normal schooling in the fall/spring semester(s) and then intern throughout the summer. that way you a) get your schooling in and b) get your internship experience (most if not all internships give you SOME college credit and a nice paycheck for your time).

we don't have a department like that really. Some tech companies talk to our CS chair, that's about it for CS related stuff. And it's 550 miles away, so they aren't even applicable to me

Are you getting an online degree? That might severely limit your opportunities

 

[axelfox]

Computer Scientist?

 

[fs5]

my advice: take a lower job at a small company that you are able to move into engineering. QA Engineer, Support, Web Group etc. My first job was a QA Engineer after 6 months and negotiating with the CEO to move me to engineering on a trial period for the same pay I was a Software Engineer. 2 years later I'm a software engineer at awesome company (a different and much better one). The only reason I was able to land that was due to my experience at my first job.