What type of expertise do students have who are landing $8,000-a-month jobs?

“They’re at a level of junior developers — people who can take on top-of-the-line tasks for Fortune 100 companies,” Poole said. “They are the cream of the crop compared to all others out there.”

Students from HBCUs who are going to work at Google, Twitter, Pandora, Microsoft and IBM are competing with students from Stanford, Harvard, other Ivy League schools and schools like the University of Southern California for these types of positions.

How did these students get to that place where they can be recruited by the top tech companies in the country?

A lot of students are starting their journey in development as of their freshman year in college, Poole told Moguldom.com. Some come in with technical experience, but many are just starting to code from freshman year.

“Having all your classes going just towards coding, after two years you’re competitive enough with a junior developer. So these junior developers can be recruited for an array of positions. A lot of them are coming in with very plain expertise but there are some who have been coding since middle school. The students that have been in tech since middle school, those are the ones that you will see that come into college and after their first year in college, they’re interning at Google or Apple or Microsoft. The students that start coding at 13, 14, 15 — they’re immediately going to be competing for Google, Apple and Microsoft positions.

What’s your message to parents who say their kids are spending too much time on the computer and not enough time outside playing sports? How can they direct their kids for their future?

Every kids is not going to be a developer for Intel … communicate to your children that you can do whatever you want to do. Expose your children to tech in a way they can gravitate to it because in the future, everything children will do is going to be dictated by technology. If you’re on the side that can help create that technology or from that side that can help make a future for that technology, your life is going to be a lot simpler. Make technology seem accessible to children. It’ll really help them out.

Poole has a degree in business administration but most of his professional experiences have been in technology. During school, he founded When&Where — a social startup platform for discovering events and sharing experiences while attending events.