I work for a financial services company in Boston as a SWE, and our early career recruiter for tech was saying she was visiting over 20 schools this fall alone, all over the east coast. She also said that she’ll most likely be hiring ~10 or so new grads for June 2025, not including those that already interned here this past summer.
My question is- why do early career teams even bother going to that many schools? If you know you’re gonna hire 10 people, and there’s guaranteed to be 100s of applicants because of the awful job market, doesn’t it make sense to only really recruit from schools within the city/state (which Boston has TONS of) to save time and money?
Recruiting definitely isn’t cheap with travel and registration costs, so that money would probably be best used elsewhere instead of visiting schools where you know you’ll hire nobody from. Am I missing something here?
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r/cscareerquestions I work for a financial services company in Boston as a SWE, and our early career recruiter for tech was saying she was visiting over 20 schools this fall alone, all over the east coast. She also said that she’ll most likely be hiring ~10 or so new grads for June 2025, not including those that already interned here this past summer. My question is- why do early career teams even bother going to that many schools? If you know you’re gonna hire 10 people, and there’s guaranteed to be 100s of applicants because of the awful job market, doesn’t it make sense to only really recruit from schools within the city/state (which Boston has TONS of) to save time and money? Recruiting definitely isn’t cheap with travel and registration costs, so that money would probably be best used elsewhere instead of visiting schools where you know you’ll hire nobody from. Am I missing something here? submitted by /u/Brick-Foreign [link] [comments]
I work for a financial services company in Boston as a SWE, and our early career recruiter for tech was saying she was visiting over 20 schools this fall alone, all over the east coast. She also said that she’ll most likely be hiring ~10 or so new grads for June 2025, not including those that already interned here this past summer.
My question is- why do early career teams even bother going to that many schools? If you know you’re gonna hire 10 people, and there’s guaranteed to be 100s of applicants because of the awful job market, doesn’t it make sense to only really recruit from schools within the city/state (which Boston has TONS of) to save time and money?
Recruiting definitely isn’t cheap with travel and registration costs, so that money would probably be best used elsewhere instead of visiting schools where you know you’ll hire nobody from. Am I missing something here?
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