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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hiring manager here.  It matters a lot which courses students choose to take in their CS Dept coursework.

There is a surplus of CS majors who did not take the harder upper-level CS electives and instead ONLY took easier upper-level electives (e.g., web programming, scripting).  Many of those being laid off ormhaving trouble finding work have these skills.

There is a long-term/ongoing shortage of CS majors [b]who took the harder electives [/b](e.g., compilers, OS/kernel internals, assembly, real-time/embedded systems).[/quote]

as a parent to a non-CS engineering kid, this is where being at a top/rigorous school matters: difficult upper level/grad level is the norm there sometimes as sophomores, and advisors know to encourage the students to challenge themselves too. colleges new to CS were a dime a dozen the past few years: those with low-barrier entry have poorly done curricula. [b]It's like JMU engineering vs stanford/MIT/CMU/princeton/penn, even yale has much more rigor than JMU and they are newer to Engineering and CS[/b]. The jobs for average and below CS will disappear. Coursework is key, just like high school but the stakes are higher[/quote]

Hate to tell you but all that really matters for a non CS engineering kid is ABET accreditation for the engineering program. I really didn't care where you went to school when I was hiring at Meta. I had engineers  from all over MIT, CIT, RIT, Missouri S&T, Nevada-Reno, Calgary, Waterloo, Toronto, NC State, etc. It didn't matter. In fairness some schools had a easier shot at getting noticed at Internship time but a kid with great grades from Bama would have been in the hunt just as much as a kid from MIT as long as they had something interesting in their resume.

For CS, if you could code you could code.....it was all that mattered.[/quote]

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