Software-specific hiring events, campus employer fairs and developer mixers in San Diego this fall: UC San Diego, SDSU and USD career fairs, HackerX, JobFairX technology fairs and Startup Week. Each page gives the verified date, venue, cost, who should go and a sponsorship read, since much of San Diego's engineering hiring sits with clearance-only defense employers.
Apply to the employers before the eventIT consulting firms hire face-to-face in Mission Valley, two and a half hours, free entry.
UCSD's biggest fall fair packs an arena with employers, and alumni get the first half hour.
Upload a resume, get matched, and interview San Diego tech employers by video the same day.
Student-run, engineering-only, 1,000-plus attendees and recruiters who came specifically for engineers.
SDSU's all-industries fall fair is open to the public, so non-Aztecs can walk in too.
Atlassian and Jane Street confirmed at a CS-club career fair with headshots and resume reviews.
USD's engineering-and-computing-only fair: small school, short lines, recruiters who came for coders.
Five days, five venues, 5,000 founders and operators, and startups that are actually hiring.
Second JobFairX tech round of the fall: same-day matched interviews, no commute.
Five-minute rapid interviews with 20-plus hiring companies in one evening, free if you get approved.
WomenHack has run San Diego recruiting nights before; no fall date yet, apply so you get the invite.
The other half is being first to the roles these employers post, and having something real to show when you get there.
