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Comment Yes. The industry needs good programmers. (Score 1) 844

Yes. I graduated from University of Wisconsin with a Bachelors degree in Computer Sciences. I had internships for two summers before graduating. I had five interviews with top tier software companies, and got five offers, ranging from $65k to $85k, and all including excellent benefits. Do your homework. Do well in classes. Do well in an algorithms class since it gives you one of the most useful skills you'll need in an interview. Get an internship. Practice interviews with friends and share your experiences. Interview often, you have little to lose. Get a job on campus if you can't get an internship, so you can get a reference from a PhD the next year. Those references go a very long way. Oh yea, and make sure you learn about parallel programming. It's important these days.
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Submission + - How Steve Jobs Played Hardball in iPhone Birth

Carl Bialik from WSJ writes: "Apple bucked the rules of the cellphone industry when creating the iPhone by wresting control away from normally powerful wireless carriers, the Wall Street Journal reports. From the article: 'Only three executives at the carrier, which is now the wireless unit of AT&T Inc., got to see the iPhone before it was announced. Cingular agreed to leave its brand off the body of the phone. Upsetting some Cingular insiders, it also abandoned its usual insistence that phone makers carry its software for Web surfing, ringtones and other services. ... Mr. Jobs once referred to telecom operators as "orifices" that other companies, including phone makers, must go through to reach consumers. While meeting with Cingular and other wireless operators he often reminded them of his view, dismissing them as commodities and telling them that they would never understand the Web and entertainment industry the way Apple did, a person familiar with the talks says.'"

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