How are your May 2025 college grads doing with their job hunts/job offers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tech has been a rough industry with a lot of layoffs in recent years, including software engineers.

FAANG companies over hired during the pandemic to provide shareholders with great "growth" numbers. Now that the economy has turned, they have been cutting staff like crazy for quite some time now.

Schools have also introduced or increase the size of tech related programs. It's just another oversaturated industry with candidates also having to compete with equally skilled off-shore talent working at a fraction of the cost.

UMD halved their CS program size. Went from 1400 to 700, with only 600 direct admit, and 100 for transfer, both internal end external.

[Anonymous]

ok people your nursing and teaching students are not really relevant here as those jobs are always in demand.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My VT grad has accepted a data scientist job at the place he interned last summer. In DC, $85k. Crossing my fingers that it doesn't go away between now and June!

govt contractor?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ok people your nursing and teaching students are not really relevant here as those jobs are always in demand.

Rude, inappropriate comment.

[Anonymous]

DS has had job since his junior year internship in field.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My VT grad has accepted a data scientist job at the place he interned last summer. In DC, $85k. Crossing my fingers that it doesn't go away between now and June!

govt contractor?

Yes, DoD. But, seems to be in a high priority area and the company is actively hiring, regular staff and their usual class of summer interns. So, cautiously optimistic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ok people your nursing and teaching students are not really relevant here as those jobs are always in demand.

Rude, inappropriate comment.

not quite, the OP was asking about those in fields that may be affected by this economy and administration.

[Anonymous]

i have heard of course this is could be heresy that some UVA mcintire students getting excellent Quant offers for WS firms. Over 200K but this probably a select few.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:i have heard of course this is could be heresy that some UVA mcintire students getting excellent Quant offers for WS firms. Over 200K but this probably a select few.

My DS is a UVA McIntire May grad, and he is still looking for jobs.

[Anonymous]

DS, graduating from VT, has a job in his field (accepted at the end of his internship last summer) but is the only one in his friend group with a job. They want to live together but, for now, DS will live with us until the others figure out their job situations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DS, who is going into teaching, received an offer from his first interview and he accepted it. I knew he wouldn't have a difficult time finding a job. The job is at a private high school and we had heard that their salaries were significantly less than what he would earn in public school. Yes, the offer was less but just slightly and he most likely will have better working conditions (better behaved students, no students significantly below grade level.)

I loved being a teacher in a private school. Good luck to your son.

[Anonymous]

Any upcoming accounting/finance/business graduates?

[Anonymous]

My upcoming engineering graduate has four offers. Still deciding. Range is 75-90k.

[Anonymous]

Man, this is depressing. I'm so glad my DC graduated a year early. 2024 was bad but not as bad as 2025 from what I hear and see. I have another one starting college this year and interested in CS. I have been trying to steer DC from CS to another engineering field but it's hard for an 18yo to know what they want to do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ok people your nursing and teaching students are not really relevant here as those jobs are always in demand.

Rude, inappropriate comment.

not quite, the OP was asking about those in fields that may be affected by this economy and administration.

Actually, no, the question didn’t mention that at all. But regardless, the way you say “your nursing and teaching students” comes across as snide and rude. I agree with PP