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>>11755805
>CS grads from uow can name their price and work wherever the fuck they want
This is a complete fucking LIE. I am a UWaterloo grad and I don't earn a good living at all. What matters is
>Luck
>Connections

If you're lucky enough to land the *right* co-ops when you are in first or second year you are basically set for life since you piggy back off that for everything else. If not, then you're fucked. If you don't have that to coast on, have good connections. My room mate (and best friend at the time) was in the same program and year as me, and we had pretty equivalent grades and work experience. He happens to get into a specific group for his capstone project with a couple of ballers with industry connects. They get ridiculous attention from all the profs for their project, they file patents, form a company after graduating, get bought by FANG, become millionaires, move to California and live the life.

I was literally a fuckin parallel mirror to this guy and I'm earning shit living in place where the cost of living goes up so fast I get poorer every year in spite of all my pay raises and bonuses.

The only real chance at extra-ordinary success you have from University is through opportunity from connections. Who you meet is random, so always push to socialize. But your degree itself isn't worth shit. Most large companies in tech don't even care if you have one before. No one looks at a degree and thinks "Hey this person spent 4+ years specializing in something and being rigorously tested on it" and everyone has a fucking degree now too.

Sorry for the rant, but degrees and university rep doesn't print money anymore.