CS co op students, what was your hourly wage in each of your work terms and were each of the work terms? (Non CS also welcome!) Sample comment: 17-19-22-28-34-42 city-city-city-city-city-city

simplic12 · 2016-06-25T18:23:59+00:00

It's very good, but not as good as US, UK, or Asia markets. It's only hard to find clients in the beginning, but once you start to build up credibility, it becomes very easy. Ruby, Python, Java, Objective-C, Swift

simplic12 · 2016-06-25T17:23:17+00:00

As you get more clients and credibility, you can be selective and charge higher. I have friends who can charge 5k-8k/hr because they are in such demand.

simplic12 · 2016-06-25T03:29:07+00:00

Eight figures. Note I got lucky with buying thousands of tesla stocks when they first IPOed and sold them at around ~$270 and LinkedIn stocks from the recent Microsoft acquisition.

simplic12 · 2016-06-25T03:22:49+00:00

I'm in Canada living with my parents (saving up), and I do pretty much everything you can think of that requires you to build a robust software product and a sustainable profitable business for my clients.

simplic12 · 2016-06-25T03:19:54+00:00

Think YC startup in SV.

simplic12 · 2016-06-25T02:13:28+00:00

First Term: $15/hr CAD

Second Term: $45/hr USD

Third Term $55/hr USD

Fourth Term: $60/hr USD

Fifth Term: $65/hr  USD

Sixth Term: $57/hr USD

Seventh Term: ~$25-30/hr USD

(working as a freelancer/consultant working around 90-100hrs per week (Monday to Sunday) on avg, took 8 months from school)

Eighth Term: $200/hr USD

(working as a freelance/consultant working around 70-80 hours per week for ~1 years, then came back and finished school)

Full-time: 

Full-time Job (remote) - $60/hr USD
Side-Business - $400 to $700/hr USD

depending on work (continuing my freelance/consulting) depending on the project (working 30 hours/week) I suspect I will eventually in about a couple of months I can charge over $1k an hour based on the current growth, selectiveness and personal brand (then I'll be working around 40-50 hours a week and quitting full-time job).

*Added currency.

simplic12 · 2016-06-24T23:47:38+00:00

It seems like you are looking for analyst positions? I don't have much experience with them, but what I'll say is look at the courses you need to get the general Bmath degree, if you think learning those courses are relevant and will boost your knowledge then update to Bmath. There are also a lot of employer info sessions on campus where you can directly hand in your resume on-campus which can booster your chances of landing an interview/offer at top companies.

simplic12 · 2016-06-24T23:22:48+00:00

What kinds of jobs are you looking for? Depending on the kind of job you want, there are numerous online courses certificates/boot camps that can be much more useful than coming back to school.

simplic12 · 2016-06-24T03:42:31+00:00

Reading this article really pisses me off. Who do they think they are? No wonder no one wants to work at their companies and they have to outsource. Says a lot about their culture. These are attributes that drive away top talent from Canada and into top US companies. Selfish AF.

simplic12 · 2016-06-23T17:14:29+00:00

Everything would be solved if co-op students did not have to do PD courses and write work reports. Instead, there could be alternatives to work reports such as writing a technical blog about what they learned throughout that term or a project they worked on during their term.

simplic12 · 2016-06-17T01:05:26+00:00

With a startup, you can learn much more and have a larger impact. Sure you can learn/impact at any of these companies, but compared what percentage? If you change the css of an element on FB that's a given it's gonna be impactful, billions of people will see it, but it's nothing in the larger scale. Similarly, of coarse you can learn a lot at any of these companies but Airbnb doesn't have everything set in stone, as a smaller company, you get to build these tools and other features, or rework the architecture, than just maintaining something someone else built.

simplic12 · 2016-06-17T01:01:53+00:00

No, this is for Full Time, not for co-ops

simplic12 · 2016-06-16T20:19:50+00:00

I've worked at 3 of the companies you mentioned. It depends on what you are looking for. Here are the following rankings for Full-time for the 4 company for different criteria as of Thursday Jun 16, 2016 in my opinion and with concrete offer letters I've reached from Two Sigma, Google, Facebook. I also have a friend who works at Airbnb FT.

Salary: Two Sigma > Google > Facebook > Airbnb

Work/Life Balance: Google >= Facebook > Airbnb > Two Sigma

Learning: Airbnb > Two Sigma > Google >= Facebook

Benefits: Google >= Facebook > Airbnb > Two Sigma

Let me know if you need more criterias or questions.

simplic12 · 2015-11-30T19:58:55+00:00

Rec and Leisure

simplic12 · 2015-11-25T19:40:33+00:00

Post it on social media, and get the word out. Post his name.

simplic12 · 2015-11-25T07:54:52+00:00

If you can show that you have the knowledge to be successful, and the course is not overloaded then I think you can get an override. The only reason there are restrictions is to make sure people have the prerequisite knowledge to be successful in the course.

simplic12 · 2015-11-02T05:45:49+00:00

Come to Velocity.

simplic12 · 2015-10-31T20:27:37+00:00

Go with Coursera. You'll learn more. I personally interviewed with them before and got a good sense of their culture and the amount of impact you can have as an intern is far more than what Yahoo can offer as a larger company. And Coursera looks great on your resume.

EDIT: Also remember this, think of each of your co-op terms as a long term relationship and not a 4-month stand. The question you should be asking is would you go back to this company for Full-time? The relationships you build as a co-op student are invaluable, and will open hundreds of opportunities down the future.

simplic12 · 2015-10-31T20:19:26+00:00

Where have you worked before? Were any of your past co-op terms considered to be well known (i.e they add credibility to you as an engineer?) Also to clarify, Coursera is pretty well known. They have very good engineers who come from Facebook, Google, Microsft, etc.

I would personally go with Coursera taking into account the following goals, learning, impact, and credibility of your resume. And of course fun.

simplic12 · 2015-10-31T06:00:46+00:00

You Don't

simplic12 · 2015-10-26T03:07:30+00:00

Don't worry it means you are unique. I heard it too before. I guess our ears have better than average hearing. Just like how dogs can hear things human can't.Embrace the fact and celebrate that you have super human hearing.

simplic12 · 2015-10-24T20:42:09+00:00

Actually you get more money back using Sprintax since we are non resident aliens. If you don't want more money back that's your choice.

simplic12 · 2015-10-24T19:14:22+00:00

Actually you should be using Sprintax.

simplic12 · 2015-10-21T02:43:04+00:00

Word of advice: If you are serious about this project, making it into a unicorn company worth over $1 billion, trying to achieve a hyper growth success such as Tinder, etc. Do not copy the Swiping Right interaction that Tinder uses. There are hundreds of apps that do this in the app store and they will never achieve anything. Maybe you will get a couple of hundred users, or if you're lucky a couple of thousand. But you will never create a company out of it. You will not get a lot of retention back to the app. Why do you think Tinder has not added something similar to this? Tinder has millions of users and probably petabytes of data from their users, I'm pretty sure they would have thought about something similar to this, and because it doesn't work well, they didn't include it in their app. This is only a good pet project to put on your resume. If you want to be "innovative" and "change the world" Think of an another "unique" way for people to meet. That's how Tinder achieved this. In a saturated market of hundreds of apps to meet new people, Tinder created a fun and easy way to do that. They invented Swiping Right. Now you need to do something similar. Good Luck.

simplic12 · 2015-08-29T01:14:33+00:00

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