Which major are you going to study in the United States for better employment?

With the rise of Silicon Valley, a large number of Internet companies went public and cashed in, creating a group of super-rich. The lifestyle of working in a suit and tie on Wall Street is not as attractive to American student elites as before. Writing codes in Internet companies, slippers and underwear, unlimited working hours and relatively low entry barriers have become the best jobs for many China students to stay in the United States. Another advantage is that CS doesn't pay much attention to schools, academic qualifications and majors. As long as your algorithm code is good enough and you brush enough interview questions, it is not difficult to go to many big Internet companies.

In recent years, many China students who are not majoring in cs, such as EE, BME, ME, physics, chemistry, mathematics and even biology, just want to stay in the United States after graduation, so switching to CS is the best way. If it is a pure coding position, the salary of each company will hardly be too much, basically around 8w- 10w. Machine learning has been very popular for two years. A senior in my department 13 went to google to do machine vision, with a basic salary and bonus 19.5w, which made his tutor from MIT envious. This is a high-end code post, not only writing code, but also having very deep research experience in related fields.

The traditional three golden collar positions in American mind: doctor, lawyer and Wall Street are only applicable to white Americans. The skin color is wrong, and even the mother tongue is at a considerable disadvantage.

Medicine is a road that lasts for many years. Studying medicine in the United States is the most difficult and longest road, even higher than the law. Because doctors, as the noblest profession in America, have ridiculously high demands on students. The admission rate is very low and the study time is very long. Undergraduate course for 4 years, medical school for 4 years, and resident after graduation. It basically takes 12 years to get a medical license. At the same time, tuition fees are not cheap, and scholarships are few, which is hard for international students to expect. The whole cost is about 400,000-500,000 dollars. However, once you get a doctor's license, your income will be really high. A few years ago, few people from China went to study in the United States, but in the past two years, it has gradually increased.

The United States is a relatively solidified society. The more developed the country, the more solidified the class. There is a saying that an American-born white man has worked hard all his life and can complete a class leap on average. For people with other skin colors, it will be more difficult.

Perhaps because of the high salary of domestic securities brokers in the past two years, more and more people go to the United States to study LLM, JD, or LLM to JD. The cost of LLM is relatively low. For a year, I began to prepare for the bar examinations in various States in the United States, or I was looking for a job. It is not difficult to find an internship. I know more than a dozen LLM students, all of whom have basically found internship jobs, but few of them have really found a good full-time job. Most of them returned to China after the internship, and a few stayed to do some non-mainstream fields, such as immigration lawyers. Few students can go to the mainstream to make money, such as mergers and acquisitions.

Relatively speaking, going to Wall Street is more practical for most China students than the above two industries. In addition to finance, financial engineering, MBA and other majors directly related to their majors, many masters and doctors of CS, EE and even physics can go to Wall Street to do Quant. Before 20 10, major investment banks liked to recruit miners from doctors of science and engineering in top cattle schools, and stochastic differential equations seemed to be well solved by doctors of high-energy physics at MIT. After the upsurge of financial engineering in the past two years, Quant gradually stopped recruiting people from traditional science and engineering, and instead recruited more directly related financial engineering professionals.

In addition, the IT departments of these financial institutions recruit many fresh graduates to do programming every year. Because it is a traditional financial industry, the demand for C++ is greater than that of Java, which is different from other Internet companies. For example, the IT department of Bloomberg's new york office recruits no less than 20 fresh graduates from the Boston job fair every year to write C++.

To sum up, the most direct and effective way for China students majoring in science and engineering to stay in the United States is to learn to write code, brush the interview questions of programming, and work in Internet companies or IT departments in traditional industries. It is highly repeatable. If you follow in the footsteps of your predecessors, you will definitely find a job to stay, your income will be higher than the median social income, and you will live a lawn house life. Of course, staying is one thing, and having a good career development is another. People in China generally feel that it is difficult to enter the middle and senior levels in large companies, which may be due to language and culture.