Tech recruiting tends to be less strategic than consulting meaning that it’s later in the season and things are all over the place when it comes to tech.
The main challenge I have noticed is that people who don’t have tech background have a hard time breaking in at least they did last year and a bit this year because there were so many experienced people laid off from the lacks of Amazon and Google and Facebook while many of the industry switches from business schools were just not as qualified and so out of the positions we’re getting filled by the laid off mass ....
By the time you graduate things should hopefully fizzle out and improve in terms of the glut of product management candidates, and hopefully the positions open back up because it seems to go in waves with over recruiting in 2022 and then under recruiting in 2024.
Outside of these trends, the most useful rule of thumb in choosing your program is to pick the same country or continent where you would like to work. It would generally be unproductive to go to school in Europe and try to recruit in the US because you would not have a work permit for the US, and there’s very little appetite today to bring in people to the US unless you’re there already or you’ve been working for the company for a while elsewhere and you have brought in as a expert to work in the US office for some reason, but these opportunities usually are a few and in between.