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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think kids get CS degrees to become programmers. They want to design the next operating system or programming language or platform, and yes, the rocket launches, etc.

There are 2-year, on line, and IT degrees for the kind of job you describe.[/quote]
+1 IT jobs can easily be outsourced for the types of jobs OP is talking about. I have worked in this space for 20+ years.  They are all being outsourced.  I don't have a CS degree. I got into it from the business side. I'm a logical thinker, and so could easily pick up the programming part. Combined with my business knowledge, it was an easy fit. But, I have not touched code in 10 years.  Those jobs are all outsourced.  Now I manage the system, and do PM work.

My DC is interested in CS, but we have told him to focus on something else other than generic programming, like cybersecurity, AI, machine learning.[/quote]

People without CS degrees are not the best ones to comment on career options for folks with CS degrees.

There are an enormous range of skill and talent levels as well as compensation levels for developers.  Basic CRUD (database create, read, update, delete) can be done by almost anyone.  Clean, efficient code that scales and includes logic for things like optimization requires higher level skills than basic CRUD.  A junior developer at, for example, Indeed (not a FANG) makes more than a developer with 15 years experience at most government contracting firms.  And, that junior developer will need to pass a Karat tech interview that the body shop developers for the most part couldn’t begin to pass. [/quote]

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