"You're an Information Science junior? I have some younger friends in
that major. Who are the go-to companies for IS, or are you not
necessarily going that route?"
So I saw a response to a post and I just wanted to throw my two-cents in. Google is madly popular with IS majors, because they have lots of teams that align to what we study, like user experience, usability, programming, etc. Though typical technology companies are big too: Microsoft, Cisco, Endeca, etc. There is also a track in the ISST major that is OR-oriented and generally leads to more Finance-related companies like Goldman Sachs and UBS (woot!) and Technology/Software consulting like Deloitte, Accenture, and Cigital. And there's always other options like independent web design companies and grad school =)
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I think ISST is going to be
I think ISST is going to be the major that will eventually become the primary source for programmers for companies. If you think about what companies really look for when they ask for programmers, they want people who have a good knowledge of basic programming structures and who have good analytical skills when it comes to solving a problem. Basically, all you really need is knowledge up to 211 and then after that, you can pretty much get through the interviews if you're good with puzzles. None of that particularly requires a student to take some of the more in depth CS courses that are available to us. ISST on the other hand provides students with enough programming background to succeed at these interviews but also allows the students to venture into finance and human computer interaction. I think that I would've preferred to be an IS major at the time if I had known exactly what the major was. There has defintiely been improvements but not too long ago, I wouldn't be suprised if most companies had in their minds CS = programming, and IS/IT = tech support.