From undergraduate to Ph.D. enrollment expansion, I remember the freshman statistics report in my undergraduate year, with a total of over 4,300 students. By graduation, the number had decreased to around 3,900. However, in the past three years since the pandemic:
Undergraduate enrollment: 4,300-4,800-5,500
Master’s enrollment: 5,600-5,800-6,300
Ph.D. enrollment: 930-1,000-1,200
The number of students going to central state-owned enterprises (SOEs) has been increasing. For example, State Grid’s enrollment has grown from 450 to 530 to 600. Other major central SOEs in the military-industrial complex, such as shipbuilding, aerospace, and electronics, also see around 500-600 students enrolled each year.
Initially, I thought that the lack of internet companies in Xi’an and the general internship environment at schools were the reasons why fewer students went to large companies. However, after experiencing the autumn recruitment process, I found that many students had internships at large companies that they could have converted to full-time positions, but they still preferred to go to central SOEs for stability, even though the internet industry has recovered and even surpassed the 2022 salary levels for some positions.
Huawei and BYD still manage to provide a certain level of employment opportunities each year, with around 700 people hired in total, despite Huawei mostly recruiting in Shanghai last year and BYD in Shenzhen.
“Yes, many schools only have job offers from the top few names or vague industries, and some don’t even send any. Interestingly, Beihang University is also sending out job offers today, and compared to it, the number of job offers in the internet industry is much higher, especially for computer science majors in Beijing.”
"It’s like this, and it’s hard to compare with Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Shenzhen. The geographical location of the internship is naturally at a disadvantage. But actually, besides the strict management of the company, the internship in the telecommunications industry is still tolerable, and the company’s management is only following the orders of the big boss.
According to statistics from around me, the number of people who have switched to big companies in the fields of computer software, artificial intelligence, and automation is not small, but most of them have chosen to work for central state-owned enterprises."
That’s true, most of the people I know are backend engineers, and they don’t have much experience with algorithms. However, I did hear about a Byte Topseed position, where interns went to the AI Lab in their first and second years.
