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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] [quote=Anonymous] Are you telling me that the kid from TJ who goes to a top 20 has better career prospects than the kid from the base school that goes to a top 20?  I'd love to see the data on that.[/quote]
I’m observing a career path of DD who graduated from TJ last year and took a lot of post-AP math and CS classes at school. Last summer, right after her HS graduation she interned as a software engineer. The company she interned for told her that based on her skill set acquired at TJ she doesn’t need to go to college at all and can continue working for them full time. As a college freshman, she learned that the most competitive companies that pay over $200k upon graduation have internship programs for freshmen - because they want to hire the best of the best. In order to receive such an internship as a freshman, a student needs to take a complicated technical test, they are expected to be able to work as software engineers at that point. When I read DCUM in the past, I was impressed that some of the CS students were offered $140k upon graduation. Now based on my DD’s experience, I know that there are companies that pay $230-270k as an entry level salary to those who interned for them as freshmen and sophomores. [/quote]

That is inspirational!  I will share this with my son.
Where can we find the complicated technical test?  
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Every company has their own test. Often times, it's administered over Zoom when they are watching how a candidate solves the problems and explains their logic.
A decent CS candidate should be able to break through the company's system and download the test beforehand (I'm joking here and would never support/approve such an approach but I know that this truly happens). [/quote]

Employer perspective:  We do not have a fixed test.  We do ask probing questions of each applicant, based on both our current needs and candidate’s resume.  We are more interested in seeing how candidate approaches a hard problem than in whether they have memorized/know the answer.  We need people who can reason outside the box (creatively) based on what they know, not merely someone who can turn an existing crank.  Other employers will differ, of course.

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PP here. DD was just invited to take a math test for some trader program. She said it consists of 75 questions, 8 seconds per each to answer. She also said that she can write a program that will solve the questions for her as they appear on the screen and then she would just need to wait for 5 seconds each time before providing the answers to make it appear as if she solved them by herself. She isn’t going to do that but this is what is possible after taking CS classes at TJ. [/quote]

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