Jobs and Interviews

Computer Science Graduates: Do you actually want to code?

All the cool jobs are geared towards hard interviews. This is a waste of time. You might as well just get a web development jobs since they pay more anyways. I mean the reason for going to school is to get a job right? Then, do college graduates actually want to work hard? I mean they worked while in school, eh? I guess that's why Stanford CS graduates go into financing and economics. That's where the money is. They spend a lot of money studying computer science and minoring in economics and they go into the financial market, not wanting to code, but critical thinkers and financial honsho's to make money. But enough of the spiel on CS graduates going after other careers, we'll talk more on the actual interviews and jobs that CS graduates that want to code are in the market for.

There are two types of coding categories that are in the market now. First there's web development and then there's systems programming. Web development stems vast areas and technologies, whereas systems programming is central to OS, Networks, C/ASM programming. Web development is easier, as well as more cost-productive. They are able to pay you more than a systems programmer. Possibly even double the salary. But then you have a hybrid among the two. Back-end C/C++/Java/C# programmers that work for financial companies. Now what can I say about these types of jobs. It basically takes the advantages of both areas, and intermingles different areas that suck -- well, besides the money part :)

Lab49 is a company that takes a lot of the brunt of the work there. As well as financial companies like banks and financial lenders ... think JP Morgan Chase, Lehman Brothers, Visa, Amex, Mastercard, and others. They have the ability to pay their coders a hefty amount, and the work isn't too shitty. It has the need for multi-threaded applications with an actual programming language, not just scripting languages. Not that scripting languages are bad, in any sense. So back-end programmers have the core ability to create infrasturctures, as well as some web development intermingled.

Therefore, if you want to work on systems-programming type jobs but want the full potential pay as web developement can offer, then the financial industry is your target. If you don't want to have too much problematic programming or even want to think *too* much, then go for web development. I mean seriously, CS graduates don't want to think past a certain amount -- we are lazy, prideful, and want to just chill. With that in mind, go find a shitty job for your shitty degree, that requires the least amout of work to actually do with a shitty boss.


Note: Some web developement companies are really well-developed, so they try to bring the back-end style into their mix, which is good. Especially when they have enough funds to do their own research. Keep that in mind. (Google, Amazon, Ebay, ibid. et. al.)