<p>Would Google or Apple hire top prospects from tech if they are an ECE major or CS major? How many people would they recruit on average from people in these majors?</p>
<p>They absolutely do. Both have a presence at our career fairs and I know of quite a few people who have interned or will intern at both companies. I don’t know a lot of CS majors near graduation so I don’t know anyone personally who has received a full-time offer at those two specifically, but that is only because I’m not a CS major and haven’t met a lot of upper classmen who are.</p>
<p>As for how many people these firms hire from Tech, that’s impossible to answer (I’m sure one could find how many they hired last year or the year prior, but it wouldn’t be very instructive). Companies don’t hire that many people each year, the number of college grads they hire can vary greatly from year to year, and the schools their new hires come from might vary by a lot from year to year. A company might hire, say, 20 undergraduates in one year and 12 the next. One year 9 of them might be from Georgia Tech, and another year none of them.</p>
<p>Don’t compare getting a job to getting admitted to a school. Universities admit thousands of people every year, while some of the most prestigious companies might hire fewer than 50 undergrads. The numbers vary widely from company to company (labor demands vary greatly from one industry to another) and from year to year. Another major thing to keep in mind: companies don’t make hiring decisions the same way universities make admissions decisions. A company won’t just hire the kid with the highest GPA and test scores from the most prestigious university. One prestigious company might screen for very different things, like creativity and how well your personality fits in to their corporate culture. Other prestigious companies will screen for very different things, like leadership experience/ability and communication skills.</p>