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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you have a child who wants to study computer science please tell them to major in pure mathematics and minor in computer science instead. I am a machine learning engineer and makes $300k. Most machine learning positions are research positions where you need the ability to turn theoretical algorithms into a product. The courses I took in Abstract algebra, topology, differential geometry, and Real Analysis are extremely useful.

Unfortunately, math majors are a rare bread. And the reason is that math departments do a very poor jobs highlighting the diverse careers of their pure math graduates. I think pure mathematics is the best major. [/quote]

why not minor in ML? https://ml.cmu.edu/academics/minor-in-machine-learning

And most ML I've seen looks more Statistics than Math - which ML are you doing?  [/quote]
Statistics is just linear algebra and real analysis applied to certain questions; mix with a bit of probability theory. This is nothing outside of the scope of a pure math major. [/quote]

I'm sure Stats boils down to Math; Math is probably the most universal subject and CS is the second most; I can see Operations Research as a more practical major and palatable to CS majors. Or double major in one of the Engineerings - I heard a MS in EE has done more math than a BS in Math granted different Math topics and no proofs. 
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An MS in EE has done more math problems, than a bottom of the barrel math major. Regardless, I know someone who completed an MS in EE at a top school last spring and is still unemployed. Had a great internship last summer but that company is in a freeze. Everything is bad right now.[/quote]

Tech companies in metro DC are actively hiring EEs. Lots of such jobs exist now along the Silver Line and some also exist along I-270 corridor.

Most jobs are looking for specific skills (e.g., Verilog/VHDL logic programmers or Digital Communications or real-time systems developers with an MSEE are in shortage; MSEE with specialty of Electric Power - ala PEPCO - is not in shortage). [/quote]

Emphasis is IC Design, searching from West Coast but willing to relocate, getting nothing.[/quote]

Aerospace Corp is actually trying to hire people like this. SpaceX also is doing a lot of IC design. Apple and Qualcomm are hiring them in San Diego. ARM also is hiring people like this, in many locations. [/quote]

Qualcomm is in a freeze. Apple was a no. Some listings are just posturing.[/quote]

It can’t be a hard freeze, because I know someone who just started there — working on radio IC design.[/quote]

Looks clear - there is a bit of networking going on here. Companies are hiring but only if you are in the network. [/quote]

I'm in SD. I don't work for Qualcomm but every third person does, the mood is palpable. Regardless he's had senior contact there since before starting school, was explicitly told internships go unfilled, hiring is bleak, that's proven true. When you see a listing, every bot does, too. Reality is worse than job boards imply, certainly for new grads.[/quote]

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