"Google, Facebook and Amazon alone probably hire around 30% of all American computer-science undergraduates, reckons Roelof Botha of Sequoia, a venture-capital firm."
This is far more pervasive than the cream, they are getting at best the top third. That is just high demand for programmers, not a talent war.
Maybe 30% of graduates of top 30 universities. There are lots of CS grads from lower ranked schools that are definitely not getting fought over by the likes of Google/FB/Amazon...
Agreed. I've got an MSc, and the only contact I've ever had was a practically spam message for an Amazon recruiter (who contacted half the province I live in, as near as I can figure).
That can't be right -- various sources but the number of CS graduates at 40,000 per year. So that'd be 4k CS hires (apart from math and other engineering hires) per company, per year. Sounds a bit high. But like a lot of other things VCs say, it's probably not meant to be taken "literally".
For anyone who is looking for a since of scale. There are only around 52,000 total employees @ Google, and there are 3 million+ software engineers. So this quote is either out of context or wildly inaccurate.
This is far more pervasive than the cream, they are getting at best the top third. That is just high demand for programmers, not a talent war.