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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just an anecdote, but while everyone on here is moaning about the job market, my son just graduated with a degree in IE and ended up with 2 job offers. [/quote]

Congrats to your son. I think lack of flexibility as far as geographical location is an issue for many young grads. My son who graduated with a CS degree got a job with a company in Phoenix willing to pay him $70k. He didn't want to live in Phoenix and he thought $70k was peanuts. He is still looking for a $150k+ salary ins software engineering in the DMV. [/quote]

There are very few CS jobs in this area with a starting salary for a new grad with a BSCS above $100k. He might be searching for a while if that is his salary requirement.

IMHO, $70k is a reasonable starting salary for the greater Baltimore-Washington region. One might do better or worse -- depending on which specific upper level CS or ECE electives the student took and on the specific skills brought to the table. Web programming skills pay less than $70k. OS kernel programmers will pay more, and will peak at a higher number over anlong career, but still will start below $100k for a new grad.

Silicon Valley salaries are much higher than here --because-- the cost of housing and cost of the special "California blend" gas and the cost of other necessities all are so much higher in SV than here. Been there, done that.

If DC is not working while job hunting, he could productively spend his time learning all about Linux or FreeBSD kernel internals. That knowledge is relatively leas common and so is more valuable in the jobs marketplace than many other things.  Alternately, he could learn GCC or LLVM compiler internals. Source code for all of these is no cost online. The last suggestion would be to get "TCP/IP Illustrated Volumes 1 & 2" and learn that valuable material. Volume 1 is protocols and volune 2 is a detailed tutorial on the BSD implementation of Internet networking. [/quote]

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