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There are about 10 people in my CS dept who keep getting interviews.

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TommyVercetti

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And I think they are the only ones getting calls for an interview. They are those uber geek kind of people, ~4.0 GPA, many skills to boast about, the works. Don't those companies calling them for interviews realize that people with those credentials get lots of interviews and they will pick the one they like best. So what is the point of calling them up for interviews, they are just reducing their chances for hiring a new person.. I think at my school's career center, companies can atleast find out how many interviews a person has done so far. So they know that the person is interviewing a lot. There are lots of qualified people who never get a call for some reason.
 
Competition right now is extreme. The people who stand out will always get first pick and first priority.

That is a reality I have had to face - I have a 3.4 GPA, economics and mathematics... and I may go through a few years in the near future with some bad jobs... oh well. I'm looking for a government job, regardless.
 
i didn't by far have the best gpa in my class, but i probably had the most interviews and maybe even offers.

Employers would rather have people with good internship experience and decent grades then someone with no experience and fantastic grades.


Follow your dreams, i'm living proof, beefcake, BEEFCAKE!
 
Originally posted by: Ameesh
i didn't by far have the best gpa in my class, but i probably had the most interviews and maybe even offers.

Employers would rather have people with good internship experience and decent grades then someone with no experience and fantastic grades.


Follow your dreams, i'm living proof, beefcake, BEEFCAKE!
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Without experience, a lot of companies won't take risk with a newbie. Its downtime for a company and not cost effective. Two of our top senior developers don't even have college degree. They are both are programming gods, one even work for Blizzard at one time.
 
Originally posted by: Ameesh
i didn't by far have the best gpa in my class, but i probably had the most interviews and maybe even offers.

Employers would rather have people with good internship experience and decent grades then someone with no experience and fantastic grades.


Follow your dreams, i'm living proof, beefcake, BEEFCAKE!
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That's because you had a reputation for putting out. :Q
 
Even getting internships is not an easy task.

I have graduated with a Csci degree, little actual work experience to speak of. I have basically struck out when it comes to real Csci jobs. On campus recruiting, newspaper, monster et. al have netted perhaps a couple of real job interviews over the course of a year, where probably I didn't too much of a chance really. I think I have to radically update my job search to include that missing "human" in the flesh aspect of job hunting..

I have sort of a fake unpaid Internship (for a company that basically exists on paper and where all the people -- 3 or 4 of them -- at the company own their own businesses and run it on the side.. etc.) where I am going to probably do some programming for people. I suppose I can claim this as experience in the future, but it's really just a way of getting references and having the word INTERNSHIP stamped on my resume.

I'm also programming on the side (contributing a tad to some open source stuff) and expanding my knowledge to include things that people on the job consider important like anything that starts with Microsoft, which I *never* saw while in school 🙂

I have a 3.45 GPA overall 3.6 or 3.7 Csci. I also have a D on my transcript from a College in the schools experience gone bad, it's the very first grade on my transcript 🙂
 
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