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[quote=Anonymous]I believe you have received some very bad advice in the answers above.

All the wealthy people I know leverage their networks to help their children land their first post college job.

The advice above to let your child figure it out on his own is doing him a disservice.

It is how I was raised and while there are benefits to it - it definitely taught me grit - I was raised this way because I do not come from an upper socioeconomic background.

It has been a long time since I worked in the software industry. There seems to be a couple of trends though that bear acknowledging

- one is the massive shift from a human capital business - software developers - to a financial capital business - huge data centers for AI machine learning.

- the second is the number of young people that jumped into the field and studied CS in college.

I believe your son needs to understand how to stand out against this backdrop.

First - yes your son should be working on internships in his field. It’s not a popular opinion now but many years ago I interned for free at a telephone carrier. That directly led to my first job as my first hiring manager had started his career at that same company and in the same building.

I would ask does your son have a passion for software ? Only he knows this - if he truly does - and you can afford grad school - I would consider a grad degree and I would specialize in system internals - operating systems, compiler design. There is an abundance of higher level programmers - but real systems level programmers are hard to find - it’s a different level.

If he went into CS because he thought that is where the money is - I would think long and hard and maybe consider pivoting.

If he went into CS because he likes math and STEM then I might consider a masters in data analytics or even applied math.

I would encourage him to work but I would also encourage him to continue to write software.

Every organization needs computer help so all your friends and colleagues firms likely need help.

Two last points - my oldest graduated from a LAC (Liberal Arts College). They worked with him on a weekly basis to help him land a job. They prepped for interviews, helped with the resume, they were a source of support. So use the college placement office.

Last, consider moving this to the college forum. A lot of folks in similar situations and recent experience can share their learnings.

Good luck.[/quote]

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