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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is been doing internships and getting call backs for the three years he has been a CS major. :) 
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Same for my kid.  They had 5 internship offers for 2026.  They are going to do two, possibly three in the summer and fall.  Pay is crazy high.   All from big tech and quant firms.    And they are not at a T10.[/quote]

You should have them contact the NYT. I’m sure they’d do a front page story about them. I keep forgetting every poster here is truly exceptional, with even more exceptional spawn that all go Top 20 and get multiple $500k job offers before they even declare a major.[/quote]

From August 2025 WSJ:

It’s a tough time to be a young person looking for a job—unless you’re in artificial intelligence.

The job market for entry-level workers is in a continued slump. The unemployment rate for new college graduates was 4.8% in June, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, compared with 4% for all workers.

While AI is part of the reason for the doldrums, there is a bright spot when it comes to workers with actual experience in machine learning. They’re in their early 20s, they have AI know-how, and a bunch of them are making $1 million a year.

Base salaries for nonmanagerial workers in AI with zero to three years experience grew by around 12% from 2024 to 2025, the largest gain of any experience group, according to a new report by the AI staffing firm Burtch Works, which analyzed the compensation of thousands of AI and data-science candidates. The report also found that people with AI experience are being promoted to management roles roughly twice as fast as their counterparts in other technology fields. They’re jumping the ladder as a result of their skills and impact instead of their years on the job.

“There is a significant salary difference between a machine-learning engineer job and a software-engineer job,” says Anil K. Gupta, a professor at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business and co-lead of its AI job tracker.

Databricks, the data-analytics software company whose value has skyrocketed during the AI boom, plans to triple the number of people it hires right out of school this year, in part because of their familiarity with AI.

A generative-AI research scientist with as little as two years experience can make base salaries between $190,000 and $260,000 at Databricks, according to the company’s job-postings page. Including stock grants, the overall compensation can be much higher.

“We definitely have people, quite junior people, that have big impact, and they’re getting paid a lot,” says Ghodsi. “Under 25, you can be making a million.”

Lily Ma, after graduating in December with an AI-concentration computer-science major from Carnegie Mellon University, applied for 30 to 40 jobs. She had interviews with about a dozen. “I did notice that having research experience helps a lot,” she says. (She also interned at Tesla.)

The 22-year-old landed at Scale AI but turned down some tempting offers, including from a startup that offered a 1% stake in the company.[/quote]
CS majors need to know how to use AI.  DC said every internship interview they had asked about the use of AI.  [/quote]

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