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Where to live after college?

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Capt Caveman said:
He's in Community College.
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I know that, I'm just not sure he does.

I'm not knocking community college here; I'm the last one to do that since I was a homeschooler that did community college in place of high school and graduated from UC Davis much younger than I would have otherwise. That said, there's a huge difference between general ed classes at a com college and CS classes at a university like UW. GPA at one isn't necessarily a predictor of life success after the other.

Dude, if you think a CS degree at UW is going to get you 60k a year out of school, I'd like to introduce you to all the UW CS grads I've interviewed in the last year that are out of work and didn't get the job they were interviewing for with me.

<--- was hiring programmer analysts at a "large online retailer" in Seattle until a few months ago.
 
AreaCode707 said:
I know that, I'm just not sure he does.

I'm not knocking community college here; I'm the last one to do that since I was a homeschooler that did community college in place of high school and graduated from UC Davis much younger than I would have otherwise. That said, there's a huge difference between general ed classes at a com college and CS classes at a university like UW. GPA at one isn't necessarily a predictor of life success after the other.

Dude, if you think a CS degree at UW is going to get you 60k a year out of school, I'd like to introduce you to all the UW CS grads I've interviewed in the last year that are out of work and didn't get the job they were interviewing for with me.

<--- was hiring programmer analysts at a "large online retailer" in Seattle until a few months ago.
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It seems to me that most grads today have CS degrees. It's all Anands fault.
 
TridenT said:
It's fucking gray and rainy 366 days of the year. I'd like to live in a city where it's sunny more often or at least with a higher density of people. Seattle is far too spread out.
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I dont think you know what spread out means. Seattle is pretty compact unless you're talking about NY. But in that case it takes the same amount of time to get from A to B because you need to walk or take the subway instead of driving.

Also LOL at 60k+ out of college for CS. I have a friend at msft making 6 figures, but hes a coding genius and was working for them in high school.

My roommate was a double major in Physics and mech E with a 3.8 GPA and landed a job at General Dynamics for 70k/year. But that was after working at 40k/year at Raytheon for a year.

Most of my CS friends are out of work or working for 30-40k a year at coding monkey jobs right now, and these are brilliant people who networked furiously in college. Just because you go to a high placement school doesn't mean anything, you need to get out and network. Now a days they arent even hiring self-withdrawn nerds such as yourself and are actually looking for outgoing people with a lot of creativity. Why? Because as my friend from MSFT put it, if I have to pull teeth to get someone to do something like that, I might as well outsource it to India and pay them a quarter for the exact same quality of work.
 
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