What companies should a soon-to-be Computer Science graduate be looking at?
Hello, I will be graduating this spring and I am looking for any recommendations on where to apply here in Grand Rapids, or even just west Michigan in general.
I have lived in the area most of my life and I am hoping to stay here, I know many companies in the software engineering/CS fields offer remote positions, but I would prefer to initially start of working in person or hybrid.
I have found some good suggestions like TGW and Dematic, companies I haven't really heard before but saw some postings on their websites which I applied for, and the the goal of this post is to find more companies like that. Any suggestions or even ideas for finding positions like this are all greatly appreciated.
So far I have checked SpartanNash, Meijer, TGW, Dematic, Haworth, JR Automation, and a few others, all to varying degrees of success as to whether or not they had positions open. I'm also aware that December probably isn't the best time of year to be looking for jobs, but even if the companies you're thinking of don't have positions open now, they may in the next few months when the new fiscal year starts.
Edit: I should have given more specifications in my initial post. The main kinds of jobs I am looking for are programming related, jobs such as Software Development, DevOps, Data Engineering.
I am graduating from Purdue's main campus and my degree's "track" is specifically focused on software engineering.