It’s starting to look like majoring in computer science isn’t the road to the promised land of money and job security after all

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  1. TL;DR:

    * Many computer science majors say job hunting has become tougher after layoffs hit the industry.
    * Ben Leong, a Singaporean computer science professor, said getting a job was never easy.
    * “The fact is that it’s a hard job and getting a degree doesn’t mean you get a job,” he said.

  5. Computer Science as a field of study has been entirely oversaturated with students. At my school, there was a 6-inch stack of paper applications to switch into CS that I needed to contend with to be let into the program. The advisor said she could only take a few dozen students. Growing up, everyone saw that programming was one of the most popular and profitable jobs, with talent coming from anywhere in the world. Everyone wanted to cash in on this, so everyone is a programmer now, and there are only so many software development jobs out there. The bubble needed to let a lil air out, but this isn’t the end for the field because we need good devs now more than ever.

  6. I mean a lot of companies just hire computer science majors from other countries vs here in the US

  7. majoring in comp sci sucked if you don’t love it.

    all that to be a biz analyst, do something you live, the career will follow if you’re good. you’ll only be good with passion. knew i should have stuck w psychology

  8. Juniors and new grads discover industry booms and busts, more at 11. Exact same thing happened during the dot-com bubble. Hell this round of downsizing is probably far gentler than post-dot-com, the industry is much bigger overall and there’s a larger market for work that isn’t particularly fancy.

  11. There was a hiring spur during post COVID to meet the new demand of what changed. A LOT of companies over hired so now they’re laying off. Welcome to adulthood this is normal.

    I graduated in 2010 during the great recession where I was competing against people with 10+ years of experience for entry level positions. You’ll be fine just need to build out the resume

  12. In my company, it takes years for a recent CS graduate to become proficient in real-world software engineering, DevSecOps, and cloud architecture. A degree is just the beginning. It proves you can commit to 4 years of solid work, working a PT/FT job at the same time, and being reasonably on time.

  14. But a bunch of YouTubers said I can go to a coding bootcamp and earn six figures immediately!

  15. One has to remember that everything is relative. If it is bad for computer science, there is a chance it is worse for most others. This is still bad news though. Very little good news going around for the supposed strong economy we got.

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