u/Itchy-Ad8471 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Any tips for new grads? Lots of options out there, but hard to know what to jump into
u/michaelnovati replied ·
\#1 tip if you want a job out of school (rather than academia) is do internships during school.
If you are one of the strongest candidates out of school, e.g. a top ranked Waterloo grad with 6 top tier coops, the companies I would target in Toronto would be: Stripe, Google, Meta, 1Password, Snap, Twitter, Uber, possibly Amazon (I know some of these aren't hiring right now). Faire is up and coming too in Waterloo. Airbnb for remote.
But I would probably suggest you try to go to SF or NYC on TN status and get a little more ingrained in the tech culture.
If you don't have any/many internships and didn't go to one of the top CS/eng programs in the country, I would still target the above, but you might find these just a little more approachable (but still hard and good companies!): Microsoft, Shopify, Autodesk, AMD, IBM, Hubspot.
Then if those are out of reach, the telcos and banks!