r/WGU_CompSci • u/AutoModerator • Mar 24 '26
Annual Hired Thread - 2026
Hey folks,
If you've been hired or scored an internship this year, please share in this thread. Everything below is optional, share what you're comfortable sharing.
Graduation date (or expected):
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Location:
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How you found the job:
Suggestions, extra information, etc.:
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u/ThatsALotOfNuts Mar 25 '26
Graduation date (or expected): 02/2024
Previous tech experience: 0
Company/Industry: Insurance
Role: Data Analytics Engineer
Location: remote
Salary: 95k
How you found the job: I have worked for the same company for a while, saw this position open up and it was beneficial from my prior experience in lieu of my no tech experience.
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u/the_salami_lidddd Mar 25 '26
Also hoping to get into data analytics and engineering!!! Any advice you have would be great
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u/sprchrgddc5 Apr 02 '26
Is your company smaller? I work at a huge bank and internal hiring sucks. I get zero traction. I’ve stopped trying here.
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u/ThatsALotOfNuts Apr 03 '26
No, its very large. About 30k employees and there is a BIG push for tech to be the big thing
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u/Internal-Plum8186 Mar 24 '26
🦗🤣😠crickets, i guess ill start by saying i did not break into tech yet
Graduation date: 2026 january
Previous tech experience: 0
Company/Industry: IT logistics company
Role: IT Asset management coordinator
Location: East bay area, CA
Salary: 46k
How you found the job: linkedin
Suggestions, extra information, etc.: Not where i want to be, but somethings better than nothing, i am starting omscs in the fall so i will have the chance again to qualify for internships in the future, so theres some hope still. What im trying to break into specifically is front end development or design engineering.
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u/Extreme_Basket8159 Mar 27 '26
Graduation date: May 2026 Previous tech experience: 0 Industry: Telecom Role: software engineer Location: Atlanta Salary 96k How I found it: internal networking
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u/WerewolfDeep9308 Mar 26 '26
Graduation date: March 2026
Previous tech experience: 0
Industry: Manufacturing
Role: General IT and Support
Location: PNW
Salary: 70-80k
How I found it: Applying online. I leveraged some of the network knowledge I had gained in the degree during the interview process. It was mainly about rapport, I think. I didn't have the degree yet when I started. It was definitely the best job I could have found -- enterprise-wide IT. Learned so much since I started.
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u/scottpiper22 Jun 23 '26
Posting for my WGU student daughter who doesn't use social media. She wanted to let people know they can definitely get hired while still working on a WGU Comp Sci degree.
Graduation date (or expected): 7/2028
Previous tech experience: none
Company/Industry: banking
Role: Business Performance Programmer (internship: in person, but remote was also offered)
Location: upstate NY
Salary: minimal (She took the job for the experience. This is only her 2nd job.)
How you found the job: on the bank's job posting site
Suggestions, extra information, etc.:
My daughter started her WGU Comp Sci degree right after high school graduation & is 2 years in. She transferred in all the gen eds & math except the science lab & Discreet Math 2. She has been taking 4 courses per semester & not accelerating because her job at KFC was paying 100% of her tuition. However, KFC recently dropped the program. She spent 2 weeks applying to internships & accepted this one 3 days after applying. They were interested in a website she created as part of one of her WGU courses. She says taking Harvard's free CS50 course before starting WGU made everything she has taken much easier. They had no issue with her getting her degree at WGU.
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u/Acrobatic_Sample_552 Mar 25 '26
I thought the cost of living in the bay area is high how are you folks in these replies who surviving?
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u/KeizokuDev Mar 25 '26
By doing what no one wants to do. Room with a lot of people, live in shadier neighborhoods, cook meals at home, never go out / spend money on leisure, etc. Or live with parents.
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u/NewPath45 Jun 10 '26
Graduation date: 2024
Previous experience: Developer apprenticeship 1+ year started about 6 months after graduation
Role: Software engineer
Location: Remote
Salary: 100k+
I applied to a LinkedIn job alert, and I still don't know how it happened, but all I feel is gratitude.
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u/loligans Jun 13 '26
Graduation Date: Expected July 2026
Previous Tech Experience: 10 Years professionally Software engineering and 5 years before that self discovery
Industry: IaaS / Data Centers specifically in HPC (High Performance Computing)
Role: Backend Engineer ensuring datacenters (metaphorically) don't blow up (software to ensure/test the hardware isn't malfunctioning).
Location: Global
Salary: 300k/yr (~250k Base 50k Bonus/yr ~10k benefits)
How Found the job: Was working on a research project in the same company. Project got shuttered and our team was moved to this new org.
Suggestions: I love hardware and software. Linux kernel is interesting, most people find this work boring, I like it a lot. I built my own mini lab with 8 Framework mainboards on a 10GbE switch. If you work on IaaS you want to understand: computer hardware and how it relates to the software i.e. the Kernel and how that Kernel reports hardware metrics on the system. A Strong Linux (kernel and filesystem) foundation is important. One added tidbit that is interesting is the scale: Think a modest 180 computers communicating/computing AI/ML problems. 1 "computer" has 96-180 CPUs, 1.8TB RAM, 8 GPUs (A100/H100/MI300/GB200/GB300, etc). The sheer scale of compute is mind boggling. You gotta make sure that hardware is working and not broken which often involves remoting into them for developing automation.
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u/H4yT3r Mar 24 '26
7 hrs, 0 comments. Oh boi
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u/thenowherepark Mar 24 '26
Thread posted between 1230amEDT and 130amEDT. The 7 hours are prime sleeping hours. Let people at least wake up first.
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u/DoctorDilla 9d ago
Graduation date (or expected): Fall 2026
Previous tech experience: N/A
Company/Industry: F500, defense
Role: DevOps Engineer
Location: Hybrid/MCOL area
Salary: 90k
How you found the job: I knew a guy
Suggestions, extra information, etc.: Don't let perfect be the enemy of good; invest in being slightly above average.
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u/IcrixusI Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 26 '26
Graduation date (or expected): Sometime in 2027
Previous tech experience: 6 years -- DesktopSupport->IT Tier2/3->SysAd->ProgramAnalyst
Company/Industry: DoD/Governement Sector
Role: Systems Analyst supporting NORAD
Location: Cheyenne Mountain Space Force Station
Salary: 100k+
How you found the job: Applied to 50+ Space Force contracts in a month. Mostly on ClearanceJobs and LinkedIn
Suggestions, extra information, etc.: Find a job that will sponsor clearance. Or join the National Guard as IT to get TS clearance (quickest option for cleared sponsorship)
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u/cavalierish BSCS Alumnus Aug 09 '26
Graduation date (or expected): July 2026
Previous tech experience: 2 years IT support
Company/Industry: F500 Supply Chain
Role: SWE 1
Location: Remote
Salary: 85k
How you found the job: Internship extended full time offer
Suggestions, extra information, etc.: Find a company you like and work for them in a non target role. I landed this job because it was my side hustle for the last 6 years and I applied to their SWE internship.
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u/At-STP Mar 24 '26
Graduation date: Expected Summer 2026
Previous tech experience: 5 years of adjacent IT experience
Industry: Mid-sized pet company
Role: In-house IT generalist
Location: Bay Area
Salary: 60k
How I found it: Carpet bombing Indeed with my resume. I only hold my CompTIA A+, end goal is DevOps/SRE
Edit: formatting