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[quote=Anonymous]I am writing from the perspective of being head of software development and product management for a medium sized company. While our headquarters is not on either coast, we are in a high tech area and competition for employees is high. My company employs approximately 80 staff in dev/pm, 40 of whom are software engineers. Other staff in my department include product management, QA (another opportunity for computer science grads), documentation, project managers, etc.

Your DC with a minor in CS could be a pretty good candidate for a company like ours. We often do look for recent graduates as we cannot always compete at the salary levels candidates with more experience command in our area. If we interviewed your DC, DC could expect to spend some time doing some basic skills tests, typically for Java, and if DC’s basic skills were promising, would then move on through interviews and potential hire. We usually offer $45-$60K for entry level engineers (recent college grads) depending on skills. We spend a lot of time training them during the first 12-18 months. At that point, if they develop the necessary skills, we typically need to pay $20-$30K year more to retain them and of course they can usually find other employment readily. Staff stay with us as we have good working conditions—staff very rarely find themselves in 50+ hour work weeks—our products are interesting to our staff, and we are small enough that a great engineer can make a difference and move up.

If your DC’s minor is structured to provide good basic skills, and if your DC is looking for employment in a high tech/high competition for staff area, I expect DC will find something interesting that pays reasonably well.[/quote]

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