I have a son who is really into AI and it seems like CS nerds are just creating Artificial neural networks tailored to specific tasks that make a lot of tasks quicker and more accurate. My son has been pretty involved in competitions that are sponsored by companies looking for people who have these skills. There is a huge demand for this, as far as I can tell. |
Dance with the devil and that’s what you get. Romney is living proof. |
so is Buttigieg - would be nice to know the clients he worked for at Mckinsey - hmm? |
Plenty of Cornell and Penn people don't slay. Killing it?! Must be getting old, so I'd hope everyone you know is doing well at this point. It probably has nothing to do with undergrad so far out... |
Based on the advice my kid was given, one should get a CS degree and make game design a series of electives or a minor. People hiring CS really are not familiar enough with that major yet and seem to fear that it is CS light (even though it isn't). |
At Penn, Wharton is much more highly regarded and those kids have a better chance at many opportunities when compared to CAS. |
Short answer: CS majors. |
+1. Those companies also typically target the top HBCUs and the like for diversity. PP's son likely has a poor assessment of what's going on. |
I know lots of CS majors from schools below the top 10 who are having a lot of trouble finding jobs. |
ding ding we have a winner! most ridiculous comment yet! |
traditional consulting is uniquely positioned to be gutted by AI from a mckinsey AP: "Regarding AI. My take is impact on MBB will be huge. ChatGPT is quite good at giving fast answers, using a credible logic, can pull in a large knowledge base to find 'best practices' and present all that in a digestible manner. That's essentially what you expect from a consulting team. Once more mature, I think the typical EM+2 team will just become 0.2EM+0.2Asc+ChatGPT, the team basically doing QC, handling clients and doing expert calls. Value add for clients paying $1 million to a consulting will be pretty hard to justify." MBB all have their internal 'chatgpt' - mckinsey's is called Lilly and supposedly it is way worse than off-the-shelf LLM wrappers |
fed jobs are no joke when it comes to selectivity if it is a desirable agency / element within a desireably agency not sure where this whole schtik of 'easy to get a fed job' came about that's def NOT the case |
Fed jobs are so easy to get but low pay. A recent college will get a GS-7 step 1. That’s around 56K/yr in the DMV. Too low for a CS major. |
But in this CS market, it would be a good place to start. I would not advise a CS major to hold out for six figures these days. Many are working in restaurants. |
But the CS fanatics here have been slamming those evil distribution requirements here for years. Good luck on any of the kids knowing how to end a sentence with a period. |