Calling all engineers and physicists

[Anonymous]

If you are currently working in a cutting edge engineering or physics field and/or hiring young graduates for engineering and physics jobs I would love to hear from you. Where would you prefer to hire from, all other things being equal?
-Northeastern
-UIUC
-Purdue
-U Michigan
-UCLA
-UC Santa Barbara
-UMD
-Cooper Union

Thank you!

[Anonymous]

Cornell

[Anonymous]

Not UCLA. It's a degree factory where engineering is taught via standardized tests. Smart kids. Terrible instruction.

[Anonymous]

I'd look for a kid who had done undergrad research or had meaningful experience on a competition STEM team. Look for a school where those are an option.

[Anonymous]

Probably not Cooper Union, but the others are all good options, except Northeastern, which I don't know much about - that doesn't mean it is bad, just that I'm not as familiar with it.

[Anonymous]

I’d pick Purdue - those kids are put through the wringer and if they survive and do OK then they are really bright kids with great time management and problem solving skills.

[Anonymous]

I mean, it still depends on the applicant themselves and the role. But here is how I look at these.

UIUC, Michigan, Purdue, Maryland would be my top tier - I know the programs pretty well and what I am getting, it is fairly straightforward to evaluate a prospective hire.

UC schools maybe - as others have stated, good schools, but there is a cookie cutter approach that requires deeper dive.

Northeastern and Cooper Union not bad but need more data - what did they do, what was their co-op, were they studying in Boston or did they do a couple semesters in Europe, again just more detail needed.

[Anonymous]

Honestly any of these would be fine if they did well on the technical interview.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not UCLA. It's a degree factory where engineering is taught via standardized tests. Smart kids. Terrible instruction.

Can you elaborate? Is there somewhere I can read up on this? Thank you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cornell

Go Big Red!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are currently working in a cutting edge engineering or physics field and/or hiring young graduates for engineering and physics jobs I would love to hear from you. Where would you prefer to hire from, all other things being equal?
-Northeastern
-UIUC
-Purdue
-U Michigan
-UCLA
-UC Santa Barbara
-UMD
-Cooper Union

Thank you!

No reputable hiring manager would prefer one of those, all else being equal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd look for a kid who had done undergrad research or had meaningful experience on a competition STEM team. Look for a school where those are an option.

Nah, the competition stuff is dumb.

[Anonymous]

I'd put everything except Northeastern & Cooper Union in one bucket.

From within that bucket, I would look for candidates with upper-level (3xx,4xx,5xx) electives which lined up with my skill needs.

If they studied electric power, for example, I don't have any of that sort of EE work. If they studied Verilog/VHDL then I would follow up because I do have that kind of work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly any of these would be fine if they did well on the technical interview.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cornell

Ha ha!