<p>I know a lot of people that work at Intel and Microsoft and they have people from Berkeley and CalTech but none from MIT. I know that when MIT undergrads finish their 4 years, a lot of them end up going to grad school. But what about the one's that just go straight to work. I'm talking about the people that are majoring in CS and/or engineering. What do they do and what do a lot of them work for?</p>
<p>Take a look at the Graduating Student Survey Report: [Survey</a> Data | MIT Global Education & Career Development](<a href=“http://gecd.mit.edu/resources/data]Survey”>http://gecd.mit.edu/resources/data)</p>
<p>There are definitely MIT EECS alums at Intel and Microsoft. 
There are lots at Apple and Google, too. </p>
<p>Of my engineering friends who went straight to work, I can think of people at Apple, Google, EA Games, a bunch of investment banks/finance companies, Boeing, several small aerospace companies, and several start-ups. One of my friends graduated with a degree in Mech E and now works as a writer for a popular network television show, but that’s definitely a more unusual career path for an MIT alum.</p>
<p>One of my former students graduated from MIT & I think he went to Harvard for some grad school, then wound up at University of California San Francisco Medical. He is now a physician in Seattle if I recall correctly. Even as a kid we all knew he was MIT material. It was amazing to hear HIM talk about other students who were brilliant & of course the professors. Makes you realize how much potential the mind has. Some people have just been blessed with incredible minds.</p>
<p>Yeah, but lets say someone get into Berkeley and MIT. If they’re going to end to both have the same job, then is it really worth it to go to MIT. I’d be lucky if I got into anyone of those schools, but I don’t really see a difference at the end.</p>
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Well, that’s the big “if”, isn’t it? I mean, you don’t know in advance how successful you’ll be in college. In addition to all the opportunities that MIT students have in terms of research and internships, there is certainly an advantage to having graduated from MIT when you’re applying for graduate school or looking for a job. It’s often just a small advantage – you might get an interview you otherwise wouldn’t, or it might be easier for you to get your first job out of college – but these things matter.</p>
<p>Speaking for myself, I don’t think I would have gotten into the graduate program I attended if I had gone to my state school over MIT. So for me, I would not have ended up with the same career in the end.</p>
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<p>Someone was talking about law school, but the analogy applies: School A teaches you which form to file when. School B teaches you why you are filing the form.</p>
<p>In then end, they are both lawyers. Where do you think each person will be 10 years from now?</p>
<p>Engineering is Engineering. It is easy to each you what to think. MIT teaches you how to think. How do you solve the problem no one else has solved before?</p>
<p>Someone I know went to MIT (c/o 1996) majoring in some engineering field. He manages factories and manufacturing plants now</p>
<p>My daughter graduated from MIT in 2011. She had a paid internship each year there, and in her senior year she was a member of a team of grad students and postdocs assembling a new particle detector in DESY in Hamburg, Germany. The second summer after graduation she was working as a member of the ATLAS team at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland when the discovery of the Higgs Boson was announced. She was only 22 years old. </p>
<p>I’m a Berkeley fan, obviously, but I don’t think the opportunities for undergrads even come close.</p>