<p>I am thinking about going to umass amherst to study CS</p>
<p>Do CS employers hold this school with high regard?
How hard is it to get a CS job in Silicon Valley with a degree from UMass Amherst? </p>
<p>Does anyone here have ANY experience/stories of people getting into top jobs coming out of this school? </p>
<p>PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DONT GIVE ME THE CANNED RESPONSES. </p>
<p>I know cs is more about what you know vs name of your school. But as far as Names go, how does Umass Amherst hold up against the better known CS schools? </p>
<p>Thanks guys </p>
<p>I got accepted to the Commonwealth Honors College, If it makes any difference.</p>
<p>Distance is probably the bigger impediment than the school name in terms of recruiting visits by smaller Silicon Valley computer companies. With smaller needs and recruiting budgets, many of them emphasize local recruiting. You can, of course, be more aggressive at finding and applying to smaller Silicon Valley computer companies instead of waiting for them to visit your school to recruit. The big well known companies are more likely to recruit widely.</p>
<p>Every computer science majors needs to understand this: YOUR COLLEGE DOES NOT MATTER FOR GETTING A JOB! It MIGHT matter for getting you the phone interview but besides that it literally means nothing to the engineers interviewing you. You should be asking the question, “Will the college help me become a good programmer?” That is what is going to get you a job, not the name of your school. You can have a PhD from MIT but not college is above the whiteboard interview.</p>
<p>What’s the whiteboard interview ?
@bwwinthehouse </p>
<p>Someone asks you a technical question, and you answer by writing code on the white board.</p>
<p>Posterguy, what is your obsession with name of the school. There’s people who are getting hired by CIA, NSA, Google that barely went to college, or community college or studied history. If you want to work at Silicon Valley, you better be a freaking good programmer. What kind of value are you going to offer the world so that Silicon Valley will want to hire you? </p>