Over the last week or so there have been lots of changes to my job application statuses — you can see them on my job application statuses page. To summarize the interesting part, I’ve gotten two more interviews, one of which was today and the other of which is tomorrow afternoon. The one today was for a web development job with my school’s Co-Op Career Centre, and the one tomorrow is for a QA position with a company called Sugar CRM located in Cupertino, California.
I’ll find out on Friday at 16:00 if I got any job offers. Seeing as it’s fairly difficult to get a job on your first co-op term, I’m just going to take whatever I get if I get only one offer. If I get multiple offers, I’ll obviously weigh the options. If I take a job at the University, I get to live in one place for a full year (I have two consecutive school terms right after this co-op term). If I take a job in Toronto (Loyalty One), I can live with my Uncle in North York and commute down every day. If I take a job in Cupertino, I have to move myself all the way down to California for four months. That said, California is really nice and I want to go. Not to mention that the American employers tend to pay considerably better than the Canadian employers.
On a different but not unrelated note, I found out the other day that starting salaries at big companies for computer science graduates is around $90,000 per year, plus shares in the company. I get this information from my friend, Matthew, who is graduating this term and has been flying all over North America for job interviews. He’s had one with Google and one with Arista Networks, both of which gave him offers. I don’t remember what Arista’s starting salary was, but Google’s was $95,000 plus 135 shares in the company (Arista’s was a little less than that, but more shares).
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