Return-Path: Received: from RHODOPE.ABLE.CS.CMU.EDU by K.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa15281; 27 Sep 95 20:14:57 EDT Date: Wed, 27 Sep 95 20:14:43 EDT To: bovik@cs.cmu.edu Subject: 1995 SCS Summer Job Survey From: Bob Monroe Dr. Bovik -- Here is a summary of the results of my unofficial, non-scientific, survey of some SCS students' summer jobs for the summers of 1994 and 1995. The sample includes internships from both the summer of 1994 and 1995, with the majority being for 1995. Years of Did the Co. work exper/ pay for: Type of Org. Type of # of summer Highest & Location work interns. degree Salary reloc housing ----------- ------- ----------- ------- ------ ----- ------- Large Corporate Software dev. 1 / 5 M.S. $900/wk yes no Research Lab, East Coast Large Corporate Research 4 / 5 M.S. $1100/wk yes no Research Lab West Coast Software Co. Software dev. 1 / 2 M.S. $3000/mo no no Pittsburgh, PA Software Co. Software dev./ 0 / 4 B.A. $2800/mo yes yes West Coast code doc. Large Corporate Research 2 / 1 M.S. $950/wk Research Lab West Coast Large Corporate Software dev. 0 / 6 B.A. $620/wk no no Research Lab East Coast Nat. Research Research 0 / 0 B.S. $712/wk no no Lab, Western U.S. Software Co. Software dev./ 0 / 1 B.S. $13/hour no no East Coast product support Software Co. Software dev. 0 / 3 M.S. $20/hour no no Pittsburgh, PA 40+hr/wk Large Corporate Software dev. 0 / 1 M.S. $925/wk yes no Research Lab, West Coast SW/HW Co. Software dev. 0 / 0 B.S. $4000/mo yes no West Coast Financial Consulting 0 / 3 M.S. $1500/wk yes no Services Co. Wall Street SW/HW Co. R & D 2 / 2 M.S. $28.5/hr yes no West Coast $5000/mo National Lab R & D 3 / 0 M.S. $3000/mo yes no Western U.S. Software Co. Software dev. 0 / 5 B.S. $4000/mo yes yes Japan (c) 1995 Robert T. Monroe. I reserve all rights of reproduction and distribution of this document. It is not to be reproduced or distributed beyond the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science community in any form without the explicit permission of the author.