<p>Pearlygate, are you actually an engineering student at Penn? You’ve listed the gamut of schools in your posts, and you mentioned you got a masters here (which, if in CS, help you god is worthless. the masters programs MSE and MCIT are cash cows for phd funding). Yahoo and Nvidia recruited more casually. To get listed on PennLink, a company needs to recruit many months in advance, and pay quite a bit to the career services office. Quite simply, most companies don’t know that far in advance how many they’ll need. Yahoo recruited at a tech talk - it was good, and they talked about using Flickr to test graph theory research. (See, I went). NVIDIA recruited via emails and through faculty - I remember Dr. Martin’s lecture where he brought it up. It’s surprising, because the graphics companies need computer <em>engineers</em> more than computer scientists - there’s a reason people get an entire degree in Verilog and VHDL. IBM and Sun visited; I know several folks going to IBM next year, and I attended the Sun presentation. (Never mind that HP wants completely different people from what Google and Microsoft want, and that IBM is now a consultancy, not a computer company)</p>
<p>Amazon- I haven’t seen them outside of Wharton discussions. They’re also not exactly making much money right now either - 1% margins really bring in employees, eh?</p>
<p>I’ve got to clear this up: IB isn’t the only thing on Wall st., and it’s certainly not where CS grads hope to end up. Quantitative finance and hedge funds are where CS grads are going now, and it’s a different field than IB. IB wants cocksuckers who can make powerpoints; hedge funds want intelligent quantitative folks, and they like to get them from Penn.</p>