Current sophomore CS major at a US T10 CS school. I was fortunate enough to land SDE at the rainforest company this summer and received another offer from IBM Fall Co-op at SVL. I'm unsure whether or not I should take this IBM Fall offer. I have no idea the team or what tech stack at IBM as even IBM is unsure.

My reasons for taking it are:

- 80% experience: both in the San Jose area and just at another big company

- 10% money

- 10% resume value: I'm told IBM won't add much when you already have rainforest

My reasons for not taking it are:

- 80% Opportunity cost of doing another co-op down the line

- 10% Potentially better time recruiting in the fall. IBM's workload shouldn't be bad, and I'm not there for the RO

- 10% Coursework onwards if I take IBM will be tighter packed

My end goal is SWE at a quant firm or a unicorn company.…