CS graduates consider alternative careers due to job market

“If you really want a stable job for the next decade then get into robotics. [re: First semester CS student, what should I start with ASAP to ensure success in the long run?]”

“Like for example, hiring rates? Unemployment + Underemployment for recent CS grads? And preferably statistics that make year by year comparisons starting at 2023 and end at 2026. There's also a website that detects indeed job postings slowly increasing over time, however it may be meaningless if the job postings are ghost jobs https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLIDXUSTPSOFTDEVE submitted by /u/nomadlegend3 [link] [comments]”

“Top talent is still highly desirable and commands high pay as a result. [re: If there is no shortage of cs grads and software engineers, why has TC not come down?]”

“Same for Amazon. Fewer slots - similar comp. [re: If there is no shortage of cs grads and software engineers, why has TC not come down?]”

“If this is what Future wil be like, we won't be able to prevent it anyways. There are always ways to change career and there will always be use for competent people. So I also see this as a probability, but don't get too crazy about it. [re: Am I too negative about developers future]”

“Civil engineering would be better. Just being a worker bee in construction isn't the best for your body and doesn't pay that well.”

“I think this collapse is a bit overhyped. We are coming down from huge IT investment due to covid back to normal levels and yeah a bit of Ai impact. Hardly a collapse. Plenty of work and plenty of jobs stuff, just a bit less then before. The industry is still booming. People in IT often have no idea what other careers are like, that all have their own challenges and down turns. If your worried just focus on upskilling so you stay relevant that's always been part of IT.”

“5 years ago CS degree holders were on top of the worlds. Jobs were plentiful and compensation were crazy high. Today it's almost impossible to find secure employment and AI look like it will make things even worse in another couple of years. CS has gone from arguably the single best to one of the worst career path in very short time and nobody has reallly came to terms with it yet. Has there ever being another collapse in a field as bad and rapidly as ours? submitted by /u/Maximu”

“What this means is that 74% of cs grads are employed in jobs using ANY degree. How the fed categorizes "college jobs" is by survey - if a majority (51+ %) of people hiring or holding that job title say that ANY bachelors degree is required, then they count in the 74%. There is also the U3 vs U6 employment disparity - some grads are removed from the pool altogether if they haven't been fulfilled certain criteria. Then there is the age cohort issue - age 22-27 includes a lot of grads”

“It's not what it was six or seven years ago, that's for sure. It likely never will be again. Those years were a product of nearly unlimited venture capital, rapid growth across many companies, and reckless management. It eventually all imploded. The companies blamed it on AI but AI honestly wasn't very good yet when the worst of the layoffs happened. It was a reset brought on by years of excessive hiring. These days the industry is still trying to find a new normal. Modern AI tools a”

“There's still plenty of hiring done and growth in jobs in tech, b ut people have been entering the field in numbers that far outstrip growth. Cs degrees granted peaked in 2019-2021 and many of those grads are contesting mid to lower senior roles now”

“Western European companies are increasingly offshoring their IT jobs to Eastern European countries, so yes, if you want to be paid a Mexican level salary and live in Eastern Europe, then perhaps there are still quite a few IT jobs out there in Europe.”

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“Currently med student, want to switch EE/ME but can’t be sure is it really offer better opportunities than Medicine like OG SWE sector did. I don’t want to spend my whole life doing a job i don’t want to do. Really can’t stand to medicine and don’t know what to do. Is it madness to dropping medicine for any tech fields? submitted by /u/Even-Zucchini-4105 [link] [comments]”

“It is fascinating how it went from "I am too good to use lowly PHP" to the current state of things in 3 years.”

“It's a gradual transformation that we are all a part of. Doesn't happen over night”

“I don't think Computer Science has a good enough job market right now. I'm worried I won't be able to find a full-time job in CS after I graduate, and the internship market isn't much better — plus AI (GPT-6 just dropped and it's specifically being marketed at software engineering) is only adding more pressure to entry-level dev jobs. So what's the point in finishing a degree that might not lead anywhere? Meanwhile, automotive tech has a much better outlook — strong deman”

“People keep choosing CS because the bad numbers are mostly a snapshot of the last couple graduating classes, not what the job looks like years out. Betting on a market that shifts every eighteen months is genuinely risky when the degree takes four years, but CS still has more exits than most alternatives, someone who cannot land a software engineer role can move into IT, data, QA, or a hybrid role. A lot of people are also just choosing it because they like the work, not because they ran the num”

“Top students will always be employable in just about any field they choose. I don't think anything will change in the next 5-10 years other than the less employable people dropping out of the field, not the other way around.”

“Honestly, I think it’s still better than these other options you’ve mentioned, at least in my country”