Are there jobs for all the CS majors?

[Anonymous]

This major is mentioned a lot here, and I don’t know a lot about it and am curious.

What jobs do graduates commonly get? I imagine programming and software dev, of course, but what are other common career tracks?

Are there really enough jobs?

[Anonymous]

Not sure about all, but much much more than like humanities.
Also salary is much higher.

[Anonymous]

This is a degree/career path that will soon be overrun - much like law school and lawyers. There is a glut of lawyers, and there will soon be a glut of CS majors.

[Anonymous]

So I work in an adjacent field (data analytics) and I wonder that myself. Every position we post we get hundreds of candidates. We’re still a long way from that on the CS side, though.

[Anonymous]

I think so. My DH says they are always looking for programmers/CS.

[Anonymous]

At this point yes.

[Anonymous]

A lot of the big companies are laying off right now.

[Anonymous]

Neighbor’s kid just moved out to Seattle to begin working for Microsoft. Graduated in May from W&M.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a degree/career path that will soon be overrun - much like law school and lawyers. There is a glut of lawyers, and there will soon be a glut of CS majors.

Any one of the humanities with a Mickey mouse major can go to a law school. For CS, you almost need enough math courses to be a math minor/major.

[Anonymous]

There's still plenty of jobs but they are not all good jobs.

[Anonymous]

At my son's college, there is an intense weeding-out process to be accepted into the CS major. That makes me think that perhaps the field will not be totally overrun.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's still plenty of jobs but they are not all good jobs.

+1 They run the gammut but yes there are jobs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a degree/career path that will soon be overrun - much like law school and lawyers. There is a glut of lawyers, and there will soon be a glut of CS majors.

A lot of degree/career path will soon be overrun by robots and AI

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A lot of the big companies are laying off right now.

A lot of layoffs aren't job loss lay offs; a lot of it is corporate restructuring where you are laid off and then rehired by the 'new' entity doing the same job at the same desk. My cousin has been with a huge tech company his whole career and was "laid off" about 30 times, but never missed a paycheck, though sometimes the entity name on the check changed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of the big companies are laying off right now.

A lot of layoffs aren't job loss lay offs; a lot of it is corporate restructuring where you are laid off and then rehired by the 'new' entity doing the same job at the same desk. My cousin has been with a huge tech company his whole career and was "laid off" about 30 times, but never missed a paycheck, though sometimes the entity name on the check changed.

My wife laid off two times.
Each time she got good severance pay basically like paid 2-3 months of vacation lol
and then for the next job, bigger salary lol