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

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Anonymous wrote:My DD just found out that the full-time post-graduation job she was expecting to start this summer at the company she has interned at for over 2 years is not available--at least not in the near future. The HR office basically said that things were too uncertain in terms of future work/income for the company for them to take on any new hires, even though HR and the higher ups she has worked with had practically told her the job was hers when she graduated. I'm pretty sure this has to do with the current uncertainties in the economy--especially because the job is related to construction, which will be affected by tariffs--but I'm curious to hear whether others are experiencing the same thing.

Is this project management? Is she a Civil Engineer?

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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

Ok Jan!

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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.

Do you think they did in anticipation of the drop in demand for CS graduates or did they do it to manage accessibility to classes?

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Anonymous wrote:Any upcoming accounting/finance/business graduates?

Accounting major, accepted offer for 85k after internship

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Anonymous wrote:Any upcoming accounting/finance/business graduates?

Accounting major, accepted offer for 85k after internship

Was the internship difficult to get? Was it at a big 4? I have heard that those can be very stressful. DC will be a freshman interested in accounting and would appreciate any insight. Thanks

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Harvard/Goldman

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone about to graduate who hasn't already secured a full-time job (i.e. most) should just start studying for the GRE and plan on going to grad school in hopes that the market is better by the time you finish.

There are still plenty of 2024 and earlier grads who have yet to land their first "real" job.

Terrible advice. Spending more money is not the solution especially if students have to borrow to go to grad school. This is how people end up in debt to their eye balls.

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Anonymous wrote:Mine has 3 offers ranging from 70-90k, still wrapping up final interviews. Will probably pick the best fit one in the middle. It’s been something’s like 25-30 interviews through all the different rounds, I will say the university name has helped A Lot getting into the recruitment process even when late in the game, some employers have accelerated DC through the pipeline. apply widely! And good luck!

What field?

Niche brokerage financial services. Business major.

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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.

Do you think they did in anticipation of the drop in demand for CS graduates or did they do it to manage accessibility to classes?

They did this for incoming freshman in 2024, so I don't think it was about drop in demand in the industry. This was probably in the works for a while.

I'm not sure why they did it. My guess is that they wanted to keep the program small for class size, and also, they found that a lot of students were dropping the CS major, which is a difficult major. They were allowing anyone to transfer into the CS program as long as you met the minimum requirements. Now, they have only 100 spots for both internal and external transfers.

If you get direct admit, it means you can probably complete the program.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

I would say software dev in Java is the area hit hardest. ML/AI dev, full stack still in demand.

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CS jobs are now just becoming like other industries where it takes a bit to find a job, and the pay is not going to be $100K+ for most.

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Anonymous wrote:Any upcoming accounting/finance/business graduates?

Accounting major, accepted offer for 85k after internship

Nice! Congratulations to your DC. My son is finishing up sophomore year as an accounting major.

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

Congratulations!

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Anonymous wrote: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.

I would say software dev in Java is the area hit hardest. ML/AI dev, full stack still in demand.

Yeah my kid with ML/AI skills received three offers out in SF.

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Anonymous wrote:Any upcoming accounting/finance/business graduates?

Accounting major, accepted offer for 85k after internship

Was the internship difficult to get? Was it at a big 4? I have heard that those can be very stressful. DC will be a freshman interested in accounting and would appreciate any insight. Thanks

My DD got a Big 4 internship. I don’t think they are that hard to get, but you do have to get through the accounting classes, which can be rough.