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

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

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

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

CS can be good, but they need to pick more difficult upper level electives as a Jr or Sr. The classic example of more difficult is Compilers. Those kinds of graduates are a perpetual shortage.

CS grads whose upper level electives prepared them mainly for web programming and scripting languages are in surplus.

Getting the DC to pivot slightly to a BS Computer Engineering degree would be a good option. That likely requires more advanced math and more Physics than CS would, but has more career options - adding potential hardware work in addition to software. Important to learn logic programming - VHDL/Verilog - if on the ComputerE track. My perpetual challenge is finding people to hire who can write software for real-time/embedded systems and who understand both hardware and lower level software. The C programming language and ARM Assembly language are highly desired. Other languages like C++ are not as useful in my open positions. [/quote]

The head of dept at kid’s ivy gives the same advice as above. “CS” there is a thorough degree that is more inline with computer engineering elsewhere, same with other top CS programs he investigated. Advanced math and physics with courses well beyond programming are built into the curriculum. They are all getting hired for internships, beginning after sophomore year, then into jobs with little difficulty the past two cycles. DS and his peers are headed into their second summer of paid internships in the field, working on broader experiences for the resume. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics