11 Skills You Need To Master To Land A $100,000 Engineering Job At Google

Aktwall.com ⋅ 26 Feb 2015 02:28:44

Google is the most desirable employer on Earth. Engineers are the rock stars there — and they’re paid accordingly. Interns start at $70,000 to $90,000 salaries, while software engineers pull in $118,000 and senior software engineers make an average of $152,985. But one does not simply walk into the Googleplex.The company receives upwards of 2.5 million job applications a year, but only hires about 4,000 people. Thankfully for would-be Googlers, the Google in Education team has released a list of skills that they want to see in potential engineers. “Having a solid foundation in Computer Science is important in being a successful Software Engineer,” the company says. “This guide is a suggested path for University students to develop their technical skills academically and non-academically through self-paced, hands-on learning.”