Career Fair, Feb 10, and Company Information Sessions, Feb 9-11


Career Fair, Feb 10, and Company Information Sessions, Feb 9-11
Career Fair Draws More than 30 Companies – Four Companies Provide In-Depth Information Sessions

Spring 2016 Career Fair: February 10

Spring 2016 Computer Science Career Fair will be held from 10 am to 2 pm on February 10, 2016, in the Waldorf Astoria Ballroom, Hilton Hotel at UH. This event is for University of Houston Computer Science students.  Registered companies include:

Baylor College of Medicine
CAPSHER Technology
CGG
Citi
Dropbox
Egen Solutions, Inc.
Element Blue, LLC
Entrance Consulting
Epoch Labs
Erdos Miller
ExxonMobil
Global Shop Solutions
Halliburton
Harris County Information Technology Center
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
IBM Flash Systems
Insperity
Intergraph
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
MRE Consulting
NetIQ
PricewaterhouseCoopers
PROS
SAS
Shipcom Wireless
Smartbridge
Sogeti USA LLC
Spectra Energy
Targa Resources
The Reynolds & Reynolds Company
Two Sigma
Weebly

Special Company Recruitment Events:

SAS Information Session February 9, 2016
Come meet SAS representative, Lindsay Whitfield on February 9, 2016 from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm in PGH 232.  Rated one of the best places to work, SAS is the leader in analytics. Through innovative analytics, business intelligence and data management software and services, SAS helps customers at more than 75,000 sites make better decisions faster. Since 1976, SAS has been giving customers around the world THE POWER TO KNOW®. SAS Additional information about SAS: www.sas.com/en_us/home.html

Hewlett Packard Enterprises February 10, 2016
Hewlett Packard Enterprises (HP) will host an information session on February 10th after the Career Fair at 4:00 pm in PGH 563.

Dropbox, Inc. February 11, 2016
DropBox, Inc. will host Cracking the Coding Interview Workshop on February 11th from noon to 2:00 pm in PGH 563. Come learn how to ace your next software engineering interview! We'll go through the most common types of interview questions and how to best prepare for them! Catered lunch, refreshments and swag will be provided! 

Why Dropbox?  Dropbox is in a unique situation: we seek to delight over 400 million users across a range of products and have the infrastructure to store and process billions of files every day.  Learn more about Life inside Dropbox: http://bit.ly/lifeinside.  Company values: Be worthy of trust, sweat the details, aim higher, we not I.  Company values matter. They anchor us in tough situations and are surprisingly present in our day-to-day interactions. 

Tech stack: A lot of Python, some Go, some C++ for our cross-platform libraries, Java for our Android apps, and Objective-C for our iOS apps. Tons of both product and infrastructure work across desktop, web, iOS, and Android.


Next steps: Check out our new grad and intern software engineering roles and we look forward to meeting you soon! 

Targa Resources February 11, 2016
Are you interested in a career where YOUR ideas matter? And do you like FREE FOOD? Join Targa Resources for a casual mixer on February 11th from 6:00 to 7:30 pm in PGH 563 for some Chick-fil-A and to learn more about the Analyst Development Program. No need to look any further for an opportunity that is challenging, developmental, and rewarding because you have found it!

Targa will also outline what recruiters are looking for in perspective candidates. Targa is looking to hire computer science and math majors who are driven to deliver results from day one. If there are any questions concerning career opportunities with Targa Resources, contact Tristin Segler at tsegler@targaresources.com.