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If you want a job in SF or NYC (but moreso SF) out of school then your GPA, involvement in extra circulars, etc should be up. Get at least one internship while in college - the market is pretty competitive for people just coming out of college. With my degree in computer science, out of the 10 people I graduated with, I think 4 of them went to SF. However, only one had a concrete job when they moved there. The other three kind of slummed around at Y Combinator types of things and worked their way up while living under less than optimal conditions. All of these guys had good GPAs too (> 3.5) and I know it wasn't a walk in the park finding jobs. The 3 without concrete jobs right away just kind of moved there as a promised land type of thing hoping they'd find something and if not, falling back on their parents if they failed.
It will also depend on what kind of software development you want to go into. If you were going into more web development, you could go to pretty much any major city with that. For example, there's tons of that going on in Chicago and NYC but it's under the guise of consulting firms such as Deloitte, Accenture, IBM, etc or agencies such as Razorfish, Digitas, ARC, etc. People who aren't very familiar with the entire world of software development kind of pass these over because it's not Microsoft, Apple, Sun, etc (of course offices for those exist in the major metro areas).
I think I have written in this thread before, but my suggestion is that if you truly want to do stuff in SF at one of the well known places, then you need to get your GPA and involvement up. Everyone and their mom wants to work in SF and you need to not only show you're intelligent, but set yourself apart from the rest or else it's not going to happen as easily as you think it will be. In a few years time, keep an eye on Chicago too. A lot of stuff in the tech world has been happening there and is gaining a lot of momentum. If it keeps up, you'll hear a lot more about it by the time you graduate (no, it won't be on the level of SF or NYC but it's still good).
It will also depend on what kind of software development you want to go into. If you were going into more web development, you could go to pretty much any major city with that. For example, there's tons of that going on in Chicago and NYC but it's under the guise of consulting firms such as Deloitte, Accenture, IBM, etc or agencies such as Razorfish, Digitas, ARC, etc. People who aren't very familiar with the entire world of software development kind of pass these over because it's not Microsoft, Apple, Sun, etc (of course offices for those exist in the major metro areas)
Didn't Sun cease to exist like back in 2010? I recently visited Sun's offices in the suburbs of Boston, but it's all part of Oracle now.
Didn't Sun cease to exist like back in 2010? I recently visited Sun's offices in the suburbs of Boston, but it's all part of Oracle now.
I had to mention it because people still know what it means. Yes, Oracle acquired them a few years ago.
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