Software Engineer Bay Area starting salary?

Graduate School
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<p>Hey, all.</p>

<p>I'm very curious as to what a fresh CS graduate with a 3.4 GPA from UC Davis can expect as a starting salary as a software engineer/developer from companies like Apple, Google, IBM.</p>

<p>Also, how likely is it to get hired from these Fortune 500 companies with no prior working experience or internship, but with academic-oriented, computing research published in a journal?</p>

<p>Would someone graduating from UC Davis be offered a lower salary than, say, a Berkeley graduate, all else equal?</p>

<p>Thanks so much!</p>

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<p>You’re probably better off asking this in the Internship/Careers/Employment forum, as it doesn’t really have anything to do with graduate school.</p>

<p>That said, in any given private-industry situation, you’re probably better off with internship and work experience than a journal publication.</p>