<p>Do engineering students around Silicon Valley get jobs in college? I've heard of someone who had a summer job at Microsoft and did some work for Facebook as a college sophomore, although he was very skilled. Is this typical at all? or would it be people like Mark Zuckerberg who get the serious jobs in college (and drop out to pursue it)? I'm thinking that when I get into college I'd want to get job to feel like I'm worth it... :P</p>
<p>It’s possible, but you need to be able to prove that you’d be useful, and you’d need to be able to balance working life with college life. That’s why 99% of college sophomores don’t do it.</p>
<p>If you’re a HS student still, WAIT, since you’re not yet considering the social consequences (i.e no social life.). Otherwise, the important thing is to have some portfolio online that demonstrates how competent you are, that you’d be able to hit the ground running on a programming project, that you won’t flake out, etc.</p>
<p>WRT finding the job, the easiest way is to intern with a major tech company, impress them (your manager), and contract a bit through the next school year. Since you’re in silicon valley they’d be more willing to do this since you could stop by without too much difficulty. There are no guarantees since every company is different, but this would be something you could bring up during interviews, etc.</p>
<p>Thanks, sounds good.</p>