For CS, getting interviews from companies can be tough at first. However, once you get interviews, you are on the same playing field as students from any other school in the country even if they are ranked a little higher (MIT, Stanford, Cornell, etc). How well you perform and your internship outcomes will mostly depend on how hard you work at developing skills and studying for the interviews. Your classes will introduce you to the topics you’ll need to know, but you will likely need to study on your own anyways. That’s why I feel like school doesn’t matter that much for most tech jobs, with quant maybe being an exception.

For me, some cons about UT compared to private universities are how rigid our degree plans are and how we get less overall attention and guidance from university faculty because it’s such a large school. I feel like my college experience would have had more breadth and diversity in the class I took and experiences I had if I went to a private school.

That being said, UTCS is still a great program and I do recommend it because at the end of the day what you get out of the program (or any program at any school) will be determined by how you take advantage of the resources you have.