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bijanv wrote:Redrose27 wrote:if you're aiming for silicon valley there really aren't any canadian schools with more connections or a bigger name there than waterloo. their computer science rep has established it as one of the foremost technological schools and that reputation will be carried with the EE education you get as well. Redrose27, do you have any information to back this? Silicon Valley companies do NOT hire students for co-op (4 month terms) from universities outside of Canada. They only hire for positions greater than 12 months, (hence the large number of PEY students that go there). If you know ANYONE that actually works there they will confirm this with you (I currently have my brother and my dad's side of the family living and working there). There are very few companies that will go through the trouble of working out a working Visa for you and arranging transportation for your and such for only a 4 months position (the only companies I know of is Cisco, Microsoft, and Real networks that hire from Canadian co-op schools). Companies such as the following: nVidia, Actel, Altera, Xilinx, etc, will very rarely if ever hire a 4 month co-op intern from Canada (they do hire however students on co-op from Stanford, Berkeley, etc)! Actually, I know a couple people working at nVidia right now, for their co-op (one in EE, the other in Comp Eng). I think they actually do hire quite a lot, if I remember correctly. And these two are actually living with few other classmates of theirs who are also working @ Silicon Valley, but I'm not sure if it's the same company or not. Anyway, wrt honours, my understanding is that it just means a 4-year degree (well, with co-op it would be 5 years, but you know what I mean..), as opposed to 3-year general one.
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stargyt wrote:bijanv wrote:Redrose27 wrote:if you're aiming for silicon valley there really aren't any canadian schools with more connections or a bigger name there than waterloo. their computer science rep has established it as one of the foremost technological schools and that reputation will be carried with the EE education you get as well. Redrose27, do you have any information to back this? Silicon Valley companies do NOT hire students for co-op (4 month terms) from universities outside of Canada. They only hire for positions greater than 12 months, (hence the large number of PEY students that go there). If you know ANYONE that actually works there they will confirm this with you (I currently have my brother and my dad's side of the family living and working there). There are very few companies that will go through the trouble of working out a working Visa for you and arranging transportation for your and such for only a 4 months position (the only companies I know of is Cisco, Microsoft, and Real networks that hire from Canadian co-op schools). Companies such as the following: nVidia, Actel, Altera, Xilinx, etc, will very rarely if ever hire a 4 month co-op intern from Canada (they do hire however students on co-op from Stanford, Berkeley, etc)! Actually, I know a couple people working at nVidia right now, for their co-op (one in EE, the other in Comp Eng). I think they actually do hire quite a lot, if I remember correctly. And these two are actually living with few other classmates of theirs who are also working @ Silicon Valley, but I'm not sure if it's the same company or not. Anyway, wrt honours, my understanding is that it just means a 4-year degree (well, with co-op it would be 5 years, but you know what I mean..), as opposed to 3-year general one. Are they in the stream were they have the back-to-back co-op terms? My brother works for nVidia and in his 3 years of working there has never seen a 4 month co-op student there. Given it's a large company and he obviously doesn't know everyone but it seems to be the general consensus from the managers around. Given as I said before it's not impossible but very rarely will you see it happen.
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bijanv wrote:
Are they in the stream were they have the back-to-back co-op terms? My brother works for nVidia and in his 3 years of working there has never seen a 4 month co-op student there. Given it's a large company and he obviously doesn't know everyone but it seems to be the general consensus from the managers around. Given as I said before it's not impossible but very rarely will you see it happen.
They are actually only doing 4 months, I believe. But that is weird that your brother's never seen one.. 'cuz when I do a search on Jobmine (our job applying/matching system) I do see quite a few jobs from nVidia each term.
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stargyt wrote:bijanv wrote:
Are they in the stream were they have the back-to-back co-op terms? My brother works for nVidia and in his 3 years of working there has never seen a 4 month co-op student there. Given it's a large company and he obviously doesn't know everyone but it seems to be the general consensus from the managers around. Given as I said before it's not impossible but very rarely will you see it happen.
They are actually only doing 4 months, I believe. But that is weird that your brother's never seen one.. 'cuz when I do a search on Jobmine (our job applying/matching system) I do see quite a few jobs from nVidia each term. Well I could be wrong with nVidia specifically then, my brother did mention that they do hire A LOT of interns but he had never met any from outside of the region.
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you can do 8 month co-ops if u arrange it with the school its not set in stone.
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