<p>Houston does have a lot of job opportunities. Its the top city for newly graduated students to be in.</p>
<p>One thing, having worked in Houston and now in California, the work culture in Texas sucks compared to Silicon Valley. Its so much more chill here…</p>
<p>As a recruiter for Information Tech jobs, we are in a recession and Houston does happen to be a better city for jobs anyway, at the moment. I’m in NY and it’s not easier here, even for senior people. This may not be the best time to judge how graduates do. I know a Yale grad ( not eng) who doesn’t have a job after graduation in this market, so norms do not apply.
Also, considering how many jobs have been outsourced overseas, if we are bleeding mfg companies, then all eng may be having a tougher time. This is far beyond what a school can do for you and more what a bad economy and bad policies can do to hurt you.</p>
<p>based on talking to my dad, who does similar IT stuff and people he knows working in various companies (Lockheed Martin, Genentech, Google etc.) the engineering job market isnt that bad.</p>
<p>Like the US is adding more jobs that they ever have before. They are losing way more as well, hence the rising unemployment rate. its a sector thing, manufacturing jobs are not thre but the company i work for and many others in Silicon Valey are hiring now</p>
<p>There are always some jobs our there, but when things get a liittle better we usually get a run on hiring to cover the pent up demand. I’m hoping we do see that this time.
Many people I know in the computer field are doing the work of 2-3 to cover companies running “lean and mean”. Once things open up they’ll be out the door in a nano-second and they’ll be a lot of job switching.
You mentioned the large companies, but a lot of people work at smaller companies…and many of them are not hiring, but hopefully will later.</p>