Philosophy is doing well this year.

Anonymous wrote:my dual cs/major from a state flagship had five internship offers this summer. Highest paying is $96/hour with a $20K signing bonus. They are actually doing two internships this summer, hoping at least one turns into a FT position next year.

CS is hiring, but just not like it used to, and today, you need to know how to incorporate AI into your work.

What CS internships are giving signing bonuses? I haven’t heard of that in 2 decades.

I think people need to realize that STEM is still at the top, but now you need to be the best at leveraging AI and building in a way that gives you the equivalent capacity of 2 to 4 entry-level people, while actually performing at a mid-level.

The requirements to start have changed. We no longer need as many people to do the same job. That is why we need to cut down on certain student and H-1B visa programs, so U.S. citizens can leverage AI to do those jobs and reduce the additional unnecessary labor that exists because of legacy staffing models.

Our kids are already using AI and commanding multiple agents to do work that used to require several people, all before even finishing high school. That is the future: being able to orchestrate what used to be an entire team. That is the reality, and it is already what we are doing and looking for in big tech.

I think AI orchestration and agent leadership are going to be the future, and schools need to start teaching that quickly. The new advantage will not just be knowing a subject. It will be knowing how to direct, validate, and combine the output of multiple AI workers to produce real results.

Anonymous wrote:my dual cs/major from a state flagship had five internship offers this summer. Highest paying is $96/hour with a $20K signing bonus. They are actually doing two internships this summer, hoping at least one turns into a FT position next year.

CS is hiring, but just not like it used to, and today, you need to know how to incorporate AI into your work.

Sounds BS. No internship paying that much would have room for another one.

Anonymous wrote:my dual cs/major from a state flagship had five internship offers this summer. Highest paying is $96/hour with a $20K signing bonus. They are actually doing two internships this summer, hoping at least one turns into a FT position next year.

CS is hiring, but just not like it used to, and today, you need to know how to incorporate AI into your work.

I am asking this kindly-how do you have 5 offers? My DC interviewed, got an offer and had to accept within 10 days. How does it work to get 4 other offers simulataneously?

my dual cs/major from a state flagship had five internship offers this summer. Highest paying is $96/hour with a $20K signing bonus. They are actually doing two internships this summer, hoping at least one turns into a FT position next year.

CS is hiring, but just not like it used to, and today, you need to know how to incorporate AI into your work.

don't know about jobs but my rising jr got an internship in data science and a lot of her friends in other majors did not

Anonymous wrote:Engineering, physics, math, humanities and more are all doing very well at the top schools. Consulting hires from all majors and pays a ton.
Tech jobs are hiring just not as many pure CS majors.
Top graduate and professional admissions are attainable from all majors if one is top quarter, above average programs are attainable from almost anyone even the below average.

What a waste of skills for most of these majors.

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Anonymous wrote:English and Philosophy from T10/20, getting a lot of AI/tech and IB jobs. Surprisingly, from my kids' friends.

Not at all surprising, this is typical and has been that way for years from top schools.

They’re mostly writing myth

I’m so tired of this. The economy sucks, because orange in chief wanted to start a war and impose unnecessary tariffs. Most people aren’t doing well currently.

Anonymous wrote:English and Philosophy from T10/20, getting a lot of AI/tech and IB jobs. Surprisingly, from my kids' friends.

Not at all surprising, this is typical and has been that way for years from top schools.

Engineering, physics, math, humanities and more are all doing very well at the top schools. Consulting hires from all majors and pays a ton.
Tech jobs are hiring just not as many pure CS majors.
Top graduate and professional admissions are attainable from all majors if one is top quarter, above average programs are attainable from almost anyone even the below average.

I don't know enough college grads to see broader trends but my son had multiple offers as a data science major.

DD is an environmental science major and had two internship offers.

Neither goes to a T-whatever school.

English and Philosophy from T10/20, getting a lot of AI/tech and IB jobs. Surprisingly, from my kids' friends.

In a new threads people are discussing fields that are doing well right now for college grads:

What people are saying in those that CS and Computer engineering aren’t doing well, civl engineering is doing well, finance is doing okay but hiring is down, biology and chem are not doing well unless medial school, and the hard sciences like physics are not doing well because of research funding cuts. Are there any majors that are doing particularly well right now? What are they?