Graduates' Jobs

So where does a University Medalist in Computer Science look for work? Google has the answer!

Adam Schuck was quickly snapped up by the search engine provider soon after he graduated in 2006, which was also soon after Google Australia opened its office in Sydney. "The recruitment process was like nothing I had ever done before," he said. "For my first round, I was interviewed by operating systems legend Rob Pike, and two of the Google Maps inventors, Lars Rasmussen and Stephen Ma. They asked me stimulating technical questions, and I can't remember having ever walked out of an interview so excited". Recently Adam was flown to Tokyo for the Google Development Day to present a project that he and a small team had been working on called "Mapplets", which lets you embed mashups into the Google Maps page.

But Adam isn't the only high flier from UNSW COMPUTING working at Google. In 2006 much media coverage was given when Ori Allon wrote a search engine that impressed the company enough to give him a job at their headquarters in the USA. Here in Sydney, 2003 Software Engineering Medalist David Wang also made the cut, along with Jochen Beckmann (a PhD graduate), Rob Schonberger (a Masters graduate) and Mark Tsui. Others are sure to join, as Google seems to be impressed with the quality of UNSW COMPUTING graduates.

Not many people would expect a computing major student to become an international airline pilot - but that is just what Vic Leung did!

After finishing Computer Engineering in 1993, Vic worked for a few years in the IT industry - but his dream was always to fly the skies and see the world from a bird's-eye perspective. In 1995 he gained his private pilot's licence and was then fortunate enough to be selected for the Cadet Pilot program with Cathay Pacific. Cathay preferred applicants who had an engineering degree - particularly in Computing. (Not surprising considering there are over 200 computers on board an Airbus aircraft!) By 1996 Vic was cruising at 40,000 feet and visiting some of the most exotic countries on the earth!

Presenter "Aiyiah", aka Matthew Lee, on ABC2's Good Game studied Computer Science/Law at UNSW and was director of the CSE Revue in 2005.

When Aiyiah stops "researching" computer games for the show at 3am and wakes up as Matt, he goes to work at AustLII (Australian Legal Information Institute), where he works on data mining and database development.