Computer science grads say the job market is rough. Some are opting for a ‘panic’ master’s degree instead.

https://www.businessinsider.com/computer-science-major-panic-masters-degree-graduate-school-job-market-2024-12

by lurker_bee

8 comments

  1. Number of quality of software engineers have dropped significantly. All that “Learn to code” crap we had a while back churning out bootcamp graduates who can barely write code. Our most recent hire did a PR (pull request) with broken code, syntax error, and untested code. Just one example out of many I experienced in my 20 years of professional work in this field. Extremely sloppy.

    I posted a comment with a genuine professional advice in /r/programmerhumor and got downvoted. They couldn’t take an actual advice. That sub has been reduced to low “hurr durr semicolons bad” humor populated by CS freshmen.

    20+ years ago, computer science field was driven by passion and interest. Interest in the programming languages. Interest in algorithms and data structure. Interest in building games and software. Now it’s an overly saturated field with newbies bullshitting their resume “yeah I am a fullstack engineer with experience doing AI/ML/crypto/blockchain”.

  3. The IT job market has shifted significantly since covid ended , it’s no longer about learning to code that matters….. It’s really knowing cloud environments, knowing Api and knowing how to integrate all that securely, knowing a specific language today matters so much less than it did 20 years ago….shit with all the AI stuff you could probably cobble together a half working product but obviously still need to have an understanding for it to function to spec..but if you understand the basics AI could fill in a lot of the rest

    It’s just a different point for IT, really all the low hanging fruit 🍓 of entry level IT coding jobs are mostly a thing of the past…. companies today have more complex needs, and naturally want someone with fairly deep technical experience in Modern toolshains and cloud frameworks….

  4. Gee, the Oligarchy has decided that they can use AI now to generate the code they need…

    or maybe that they don’t need any more code.

    Who knows.

    Meanwhile in China……..

  5. Next they will be overqualified and inexperienced when the market improves. Tough all around.

  6. I’ve started self teaching python so get into entry level software. Even 70k would be life changing. Am I wasting my time

  7. Even with a masters the person with 3 yrs experience and a Bachelors will probably be preferred by the recruiter.

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