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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I work for BAH and we just hired five fresh of the boat graduates from CMU, UVA, VT, JMU and Penn State.  They get the same salary, 100K, except the graduate from JMU got 10K more because he has experience with Amazon Cloud computing and the others do not.

I don’t know of anyone getting 200k or 400k right out of college.

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For the student cohort at CMU, BAH is bottom of the pile.  At UVA it's somewhere in the middle and the other 3 schools, they would be thrilled to get into BAH.   The top 50% of the kids at CMU and top 20% of the kids out of UVA, get the bigger offers, though 400k is probably an "imaginary number".[/quote]

Oh the hubris. BAH run multi-million dollar contracts all across the DMV area, they partner with all of the mega tech companies as implementation partners, and can give a fresh graduate opportunities to rise to a level they can like almost anywhere else. Wonder how may of you folks have any clue of Tech and what working at FAANG really means, just checkout some of the YouTube videos of the folks who got burned out slaving at FB and Google. Life isn't a bed of roses for a Tech at FAANG, it's not anywhere, it's what you make of it. Someone got hired for $100K at a top integrator right out of college, and the response to that is "oh well they are bottom pile", do you have kids? what do they do I wonder. [/quote]

No Hubris at all.. Just facts.  The [b]median[/b] CS grad salaries (base) for CMU and UVA (2019 data) are 108,500 and 99,000 (from their websites; You can research the other schools), consistent with the percentages I posted above. I know BAH, very familiar with them and have a lot of friends that work there.  It's a great company, but it's no FAANG, nor does it pay FAANG salaries.  Facts are facts.

The rest of your rant about working conditions at FAANG, burnout, be thankful for $100 starting salary, yada yada yada are not relevant and do not negate the facts you don't want to acknowledge.[/quote]

LOL .. FAANG, how many UVA and CMU grads work at those, some, the rest work elsewhere, and happy if they can retain the job at BAH. I've worked with UVA CS grads, some are fine, some just not so. Going to a particular school or having some level of intellect to graduate doesn't always convert to Tech skills in the real world.

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I think you are missing the point.  FAANG is just a representative term for companies that pay FAANG-like salaries (and there are many of them).  There are many.  I made a simple point using [b]"MEDIAN"[/b] data.  You claimed that was Hubris.  I proved it was not, and you take off on unrelated tangents.  Let me dumb it down for ya.  If the MEDIAN salary at CMU is 108,500, more than 50% of the class makes MORE THAN 108,500.  If your company offers 100K salary, it is BELOW THE MEDIAN and will [b]typically[/b] only get the bottom half of the class to apply.  Please let me know if you disagree with that.  If you don't, I'm done.  If you do disagree, you need to take high school 101.

The rest of your points - FAANG burnout, BAH is a great company, going to a particular school doesn't convert to tech skills (although most hiring managers would disagree) etc. -  are irrelevant to this discussion (all those are possible in a few cases and BAH IS a great company). [/quote]

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