<p>Google hires Penn students in engineering and business (they have a dire need for businesspeople in HR and the like at the moment). Microsoft is the #1 recruiter on campus, and hires more Penn grads each year than any other employer. Yahoo recruits here, as well as AMD/ATI and NVIDIA (and I do have the emails to prove it). You do see a lot of defense companies (heck, that’s where I am now) but then again, Lockheed employs more computer scientists than even Microsoft.</p>
<p>However pearlygate highlights an interesting point: the culture at Penn is definitely toward finance and banking. Many of the top engineers go in to careers in business because the culture at Penn promotes it, and the salaries are much higher. If you’re hard set on a career in tech, you may be happier at a tech school - sitting in classes of thousands of identical peers, or miserable in Pittsburgh. If you’re considering a career in business someday, Penn’s got options you just won’t find at the other schools - Wall St. doesn’t look much outside of the Ivy League.</p>