Are there jobs for all the CS majors?

[Anonymous]

I have:

- two CS kids, a son and daughter, recently graduated from UVA. Son accepted a job with Google, daughter with Facebook,

- nephew, a CS major, recent grad from VATech, accepted a job with AWS (Amazon Web Service),

- niece, a CS major, recent grad from GMU, accepted a contract job with the NSA. She makes more money than both the UVA and VATech,

- One neighbor, a CS major, a recent grad from JMU, accepted a job with Intel,

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have:

- two CS kids, a son and daughter, recently graduated from UVA. Son accepted a job with Google, daughter with Facebook,

- nephew, a CS major, recent grad from VATech, accepted a job with AWS (Amazon Web Service),

- niece, a CS major, recent grad from GMU, accepted a contract job with the NSA. She makes more money than both the UVA and VATech,

- One neighbor, a CS major, a recent grad from JMU, accepted a job with Intel,

Do you have any sense of their salaries?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have:

- two CS kids, a son and daughter, recently graduated from UVA. Son accepted a job with Google, daughter with Facebook,

- nephew, a CS major, recent grad from VATech, accepted a job with AWS (Amazon Web Service),

- niece, a CS major, recent grad from GMU, accepted a contract job with the NSA. She makes more money than both the UVA and VATech,

- One neighbor, a CS major, a recent grad from JMU, accepted a job with Intel,

Do you have any sense of their salaries?

Google: 150K, fully remote; He also mentioned some signing bonus but I don't remember,
Facebook: 145K fully remote; can't remember about signing bonus,
Amazon: 145K fully remote; don't know about signing bonus and didn't ask,
Contract with NSA: 190K. She specializes in system hacking,
Intel: he mentioned something around 135k or 145k, I don't remember.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have:

- two CS kids, a son and daughter, recently graduated from UVA. Son accepted a job with Google, daughter with Facebook,

- nephew, a CS major, recent grad from VATech, accepted a job with AWS (Amazon Web Service),

- niece, a CS major, recent grad from GMU, accepted a contract job with the NSA. She makes more money than both the UVA and VATech,

- One neighbor, a CS major, a recent grad from JMU, accepted a job with Intel,

Do you have any sense of their salaries?

Google: 150K, fully remote; He also mentioned some signing bonus but I don't remember,
Facebook: 145K fully remote; can't remember about signing bonus,
Amazon: 145K fully remote; don't know about signing bonus and didn't ask,
Contract with NSA: 190K. She specializes in system hacking,
Intel: he mentioned something around 135k or 145k, I don't remember.

Are they happy doing what they do? Do they find it interesting?

[Anonymous]

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

Microsoft is in hiring mode. My friend's kid did two years of community college and two years of mostly virtual state school during pandemic and got hired by Microsoft.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Microsoft is in hiring mode. My friend's kid did two years of community college and two years of mostly virtual state school during pandemic and got hired by Microsoft.

Just curious, what is it, exactly, they do? I'm wondering if today's CS grad is yesterday's JD grad, and we'll have a lot of raging alcoholics on our hands in a decade or so because they were looking at the dollar signs rather than what they'll actually be doing on a day to day basis.

Signed,
An unhappy JD with a lot of raging alcoholic JD friends

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Microsoft is in hiring mode. My friend's kid did two years of community college and two years of mostly virtual state school during pandemic and got hired by Microsoft.

Just curious, what is it, exactly, they do? I'm wondering if today's CS grad is yesterday's JD grad, and we'll have a lot of raging alcoholics on our hands in a decade or so because they were looking at the dollar signs rather than what they'll actually be doing on a day to day basis.

Signed,
An unhappy JD with a lot of raging alcoholic JD friends

Following..I often wonder the same thing. I know CS is necessary for so many reasons, but it is SO dull. I'm grateful to those who enjoy it, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have:

- two CS kids, a son and daughter, recently graduated from UVA. Son accepted a job with Google, daughter with Facebook,

- nephew, a CS major, recent grad from VATech, accepted a job with AWS (Amazon Web Service),

- niece, a CS major, recent grad from GMU, accepted a contract job with the NSA. She makes more money than both the UVA and VATech,

- One neighbor, a CS major, a recent grad from JMU, accepted a job with Intel,

PP, did any of your kids have internships with these companies before graduating? Thanks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

I lead data science teams and we get tons of absolutely mediocre candidates. Everyone wants to get in to the field right now.

[Anonymous]

Do you have any sense of their salaries?

Just curious, what is it, exactly, they do? I'm wondering if today's CS grad is yesterday's JD grad, and we'll have a lot of raging alcoholics on our hands in a decade or so because they were looking at the dollar signs rather than what they'll actually be doing on a day to day basis.

Signed,
An unhappy JD with a lot of raging alcoholic JD friends

Look around.
All the interesting, innovative, exciting, futuristic things happen in the tech field.

good luck finding fun in history english sociology philosophy etc.

[Anonymous]

My kid is a CS major and lives and breathes it. It's only dull to some. I don't think you can really get through the program if you have a true aversion to it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Exactly this. I’m honestly surprised that hasn’t happened yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Do you have any sense of their salaries?

Just curious, what is it, exactly, they do? I'm wondering if today's CS grad is yesterday's JD grad, and we'll have a lot of raging alcoholics on our hands in a decade or so because they were looking at the dollar signs rather than what they'll actually be doing on a day to day basis.

Signed,
An unhappy JD with a lot of raging alcoholic JD friends

Look around.
All the interesting, innovative, exciting, futuristic things happen in the tech field.

good luck finding fun in history english sociology philosophy etc.

But most people don’t work on projects at that level.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Do you have any sense of their salaries?

Just curious, what is it, exactly, they do? I'm wondering if today's CS grad is yesterday's JD grad, and we'll have a lot of raging alcoholics on our hands in a decade or so because they were looking at the dollar signs rather than what they'll actually be doing on a day to day basis.

Signed,
An unhappy JD with a lot of raging alcoholic JD friends

Look around.
All the interesting, innovative, exciting, futuristic things happen in the tech field.

good luck finding fun in history english sociology philosophy etc.

But most people don’t work on projects at that level.

Most people don't work on projects at that level for almost any field lol.
If it doesn't get that much fun, look at the money coming into your bank.
It gets fun enough at least for CS field lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Do you have any sense of their salaries?

Just curious, what is it, exactly, they do? I'm wondering if today's CS grad is yesterday's JD grad, and we'll have a lot of raging alcoholics on our hands in a decade or so because they were looking at the dollar signs rather than what they'll actually be doing on a day to day basis.

Signed,
An unhappy JD with a lot of raging alcoholic JD friends

Look around.
All the interesting, innovative, exciting, futuristic things happen in the tech field.

good luck finding fun in history english sociology philosophy etc.

But most people don’t work on projects at that level.

Most people don't work on projects at that level for almost any field lol.
If it doesn't get that much fun, look at the money coming into your bank.
It gets fun enough at least for CS field lol

I agree that most jobs are boring.