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The race to snag top tech talent from prominent schools is competitive. Typically, tech giants like Facebook, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are all vying for the same pool of graduates.
A recent from study from software company Piazza rounded up the companies that computer science students from schools like MIT, Harvard, Stanford, University of Texas Austin, and Georgia Tech are most interested in working for. Piazza extended its questionnaire to more than 600 schools across North America and surveyed around 150,000 students.
Here’s where they said they most wanted to work:
30) Ebay
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- Ebay CEO Devin Wenig
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29) Visa
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- Visa CEO Al Kelly (left) speaking at conference.
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- Getty/Dave Kotinsky
28) Samsung
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27) Cisco
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- Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins
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26) Slack
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- Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield.
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25) PayPal
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- PayPal CEO Daniel Schulman
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- LinkedIn / Dan Schulman
24) SpaceX
23) Oracle
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- Oracle executive chairman and CTO Larry Ellison.
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- Oracle
22) Adobe
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- Shantanu Narayen, CEO of Adobe Systems.
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- Rick Wilking/Reuters
21) Dropbox
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- Dropbox cofounders Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi celebrated a long awaited IPO at the NASDAQ in New York City on March 23, 2018.
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- Dropbox
20) Twitter
19) HP
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- President of HP Dion Weisler
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- HP
18) LinkedIn
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- LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner
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- Stephen Lam/Reuters
17) Uber
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- Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi
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- Michael Cohen/Getty Images for The New York Times
16) NASA
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- NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson signs a bulkhead on the International Space Station next to the Expedition 50 crew patch in 2017.
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- NASA
15) Dell
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- Dell CEO Michael Dell
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- Oracle PR/Flickr
14) Airbnb
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- Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky.
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13) Disney
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- Disney CEO Bob Iger
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12) Nvidia
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- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang
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- Rick Wilking/Reuters
11) Snap
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- Snap CEO Evan Spiegel
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- Snap
10) IBM
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- IBM CEO Ginni Rometty
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- Joe Scarnici/Stringer
9) Spotify
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- Spotify CEO Daniel Ek
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- Michael Loccisano/Getty Images/Spotify
8) Intel
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- Intel CEO Brian Krzanich
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- ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images
7) Facebook
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- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
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- Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
6) Netflix
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- Netflix CEO Reed Hastings
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5) Tesla
4) Amazon
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- Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos
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- Brendan McDermid/Reuters
3) Apple
2) Microsoft
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- Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella
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- Drew Angerer/Getty Images
1) Google
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- Google CEO Sundar Pichai
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- Beck Diefenbach/Reuters