MasterOctopus
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How much could I make at a place like Amazon, Google, or Microsoft fresh out of college? In particular I'm interested in the payscale difference between a Bachelor and Master's degree in Computer Science.
It also greatly depends on the company. The company I'm interning now for Software Engineering is paying me $25/hr for full time work with the promise of a $75,000 starting salary when I graduate college with my masters.
I just got a job offer from AMD for some low level programming job yesterday and I believe their payscale is slightly less than $20/hr for interns and I would expect their starting salary to be a little less. A lot has to do with location, a company in Boston will generally pay more than a company in New Hampshire.
Your best bet, if you want to with big name Companies like Microsoft and Google is what everyone else is saying: concentrate on education and do internships while in college.
Yeah I'm making bank at this job, but the cost of living is a killer. My solution is that I have literally been buying next to nothing for the past 6 months (it's a long internship). But also, as the skill-set for the job goes up, usually the pay goes up as well.
Also, this company does rely on the fact that their interns will then become full time employees, many other companies just give interns their crap work that needs to be done but no full-time employee wants to do. I'm actually treated like a full time employee, partly because the company is very good and partly because I am doing a 6-7 month internship. Too bad I have no intention of working for them when I graduate, software development is a dull business.
Depends on your specific job description. Not to mention, the numbers are meaningless without considering the cost of living differences between different locations. For instance, an $80,000 salary where I live in Columbus, Ohio is roughly equivalent to:How much could I make at a place like Amazon, Google, or Microsoft fresh out of college?
Very minimal.In particular I'm interested in the payscale difference between a Bachelor and Master's degree in Computer Science.