<p>Work at a well-known tech company. These are our target schools, fwiw. Not saying we don't hire from other schools, but these are our core/I'm giving a rough estimated/ranking of what I view as most to least targeted.</p>
<p>Stanford
MIT
Carnegie Mellon
Harvard
U of Waterloo
Cal Berkeley
UT Austin
U of Washington
Georgia Tech
U of Michigan
Illinois
Toronto
Princeton
Wisconsin
Brown</p>
<p>Given your location in “PA” (presumably Pennsylvania – where is Pennsylvania’s Silicon Valley?), why pass up the relatively convenient local recruiting at Pennsylvania State University, which is highly regarded for CS and EE?</p>
<p>PA could also be Palo Alto. That would make a lot more sense.</p>
<p>haven’t updated location in a while. I work in the bay area now.</p>
<p>but you do have the right idea- location does matter a lot. you’d be surprised the amount of talent from San Jose State and Santa Clara U that top tech companies grab every year…</p>
<p>Just to point out that New York City is another new “silicon valley.” The City is on its way getting West coast top schools like Stanford to open branch schools here in NYC. City also breeds many start-ups, beside the big financial industry here. Google, AOL, and a few other major one.</p>
<p>Caltech, bro. Also Harvey Mudd.</p>
<p>Brown but no Cornell or RPI? Strange.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>well except for the fact the NYC is doing so poorly in the tech industry that they’re calling for proposals from top CS/tech/engineering schools to set up a campus in the city in order to make NYC competitive with SV and Boston. And they’re giving land away for free + $100 million to the winner. They’re pretty desperate to catch up, since their “Silicon Alley” is a far cry from SV.</p>
<p>Like I said earlier, these are just our core target schools/it doesn’t mean we don’t hire from others. When I say target school I mean we actively focus most of resources into community outreach, info sessions, and recruiting at those core schools- that’s it. This wasn’t a list I personally/subjectively put together.</p>
<p>Of course, each company has its own list of target schools for recruiting new graduates and interns (e.g. UCLA, USC, and Cal Poly SLO are common targets not in the OP’s list; SJSU, UCSC, and SCU are often targeted because they are conveniently local). Also, companies may accept applicants from anywhere, but the students at distant not-well-known-in-major schools may need to seek them out and apply, rather than see the company’s recruiters in the career center.</p>