Anonymous
12/08/2025 18:26
Subject: Re:Don’t major in CS
ok, that's not good, but a 7/11 cashier isn't gunning for CS jobs so this is irrelevant to the thread. But, thanks for sharing.
Anonymous
12/08/2025 18:21
Subject: Don’t major in CS
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Major in what instead. AI? 🤣
Psst, AI is a part of CS.
That's the point.
It's silly to think that a major closet to AI and its implementation/expansion will all of a sudden be rendered obsolete.
CS majors will be fine. There are many career options.
Do you think all of these guys will be Political Science majors instead? 🤣
Anonymous
Anonymous
12/08/2025 09:55
Subject: Don’t major in CS
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Computer Science has one of the highest unemployment rates for recent graduates. Everyone thought it was a lock for highly compensated jobs right out of school. Colleges and universities currently have overpopulated CS pipelines that dump new grads into an economy and workforce that don’t want employees without years of real world experience. Couple that with the influence AI is currently exerting on the profession and it makes it very risky to pay hundreds of thousands for a degree that could be incredibly devalued by 2030.
Similar threads every month:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1287015.page
Yup, and those posting about CS don't even understand its more than just coding.
We understand recent graduates can’t get jobs.
Yes they can. It may not be the job and pay they want but they can. You don’t understand anything.
Barista?
Uber driver?
Retail at the mall?
Front desk at the health club?
Bagging groceries?
Nope, you clearly have no idea what cs is.
It’s about underemployment, not how super smart and super special CS grads are.
Anonymous
12/08/2025 09:51
Subject: Don’t major in CS
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Computer Science has one of the highest unemployment rates for recent graduates. Everyone thought it was a lock for highly compensated jobs right out of school. Colleges and universities currently have overpopulated CS pipelines that dump new grads into an economy and workforce that don’t want employees without years of real world experience. Couple that with the influence AI is currently exerting on the profession and it makes it very risky to pay hundreds of thousands for a degree that could be incredibly devalued by 2030.
Similar threads every month:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1287015.page
Yup, and those posting about CS don't even understand its more than just coding.
We understand recent graduates can’t get jobs.
Yes they can. It may not be the job and pay they want but they can. You don’t understand anything.
Barista?
Uber driver?
Retail at the mall?
Front desk at the health club?
Bagging groceries?
Nope, you clearly have no idea what cs is.
Anonymous
12/08/2025 09:15
Subject: Don’t major in CS
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Computer Science has one of the highest unemployment rates for recent graduates. Everyone thought it was a lock for highly compensated jobs right out of school. Colleges and universities currently have overpopulated CS pipelines that dump new grads into an economy and workforce that don’t want employees without years of real world experience. Couple that with the influence AI is currently exerting on the profession and it makes it very risky to pay hundreds of thousands for a degree that could be incredibly devalued by 2030.
Similar threads every month:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1287015.page
Yup, and those posting about CS don't even understand its more than just coding.
We understand recent graduates can’t get jobs.
It would appear over 93% CAN get jobs.
In CS? That’s a huge assumption.
It's math. If new CS grads have 7% unemployment, 93% must be employed or in grad school.
Wow, talk about not understanding the jobs data ... given that you don't actually know how many are in job-specific CS roles vs social media/gig-economy vs grad school, your 93% number is utterly meaningless ...
Wow, explain to us?
I just did. Find out the % of CS majors working specific jobs using their CS degrees to land full-time jobs at a company looking to hire recent graduates with degrees; % of CS majors who are employed but doing things like participating in retail jobs, gig economy jobs, or social media accounts related income; % of CS grads going onto grad school. Only one of those measures gives you the actual % of CS grads truly employed.
This is the job of Mr/Mrs 93% get jobs. They threw out a misleading statistic. We’ll wait patiently for the deep dive.
Anonymous
12/08/2025 09:06
Subject: Don’t major in CS
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Computer Science has one of the highest unemployment rates for recent graduates. Everyone thought it was a lock for highly compensated jobs right out of school. Colleges and universities currently have overpopulated CS pipelines that dump new grads into an economy and workforce that don’t want employees without years of real world experience. Couple that with the influence AI is currently exerting on the profession and it makes it very risky to pay hundreds of thousands for a degree that could be incredibly devalued by 2030.
Similar threads every month:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1287015.page
Yup, and those posting about CS don't even understand its more than just coding.
We understand recent graduates can’t get jobs.
It would appear over 93% CAN get jobs.
In CS? That’s a huge assumption.
It's math. If new CS grads have 7% unemployment, 93% must be employed or in grad school.
Wow, talk about not understanding the jobs data ... given that you don't actually know how many are in job-specific CS roles vs social media/gig-economy vs grad school, your 93% number is utterly meaningless ...
Wow, explain to us?
I just did. Find out the % of CS majors working specific jobs using their CS degrees to land full-time jobs at a company looking to hire recent graduates with degrees; % of CS majors who are employed but doing things like participating in retail jobs, gig economy jobs, or social media accounts related income; % of CS grads going onto grad school. Only one of those measures gives you the actual % of CS grads truly employed.
Anonymous
12/08/2025 08:50
Subject: Don’t major in CS
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Computer Science has one of the highest unemployment rates for recent graduates. Everyone thought it was a lock for highly compensated jobs right out of school. Colleges and universities currently have overpopulated CS pipelines that dump new grads into an economy and workforce that don’t want employees without years of real world experience. Couple that with the influence AI is currently exerting on the profession and it makes it very risky to pay hundreds of thousands for a degree that could be incredibly devalued by 2030.
Similar threads every month:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1287015.page
Yup, and those posting about CS don't even understand its more than just coding.
We understand recent graduates can’t get jobs.
Yes they can. It may not be the job and pay they want but they can. You don’t understand anything.
Barista?
Uber driver?
Retail at the mall?
Front desk at the health club?
Bagging groceries?
Anonymous
12/08/2025 08:22
Subject: Don’t major in CS
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Computer Science has one of the highest unemployment rates for recent graduates. Everyone thought it was a lock for highly compensated jobs right out of school. Colleges and universities currently have overpopulated CS pipelines that dump new grads into an economy and workforce that don’t want employees without years of real world experience. Couple that with the influence AI is currently exerting on the profession and it makes it very risky to pay hundreds of thousands for a degree that could be incredibly devalued by 2030.
Similar threads every month:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1287015.page
Yup, and those posting about CS don't even understand its more than just coding.
We understand recent graduates can’t get jobs.
Yes they can. It may not be the job and pay they want but they can. You don’t understand anything.
Anonymous
12/08/2025 08:19
Subject: Don’t major in CS
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Computer Science has one of the highest unemployment rates for recent graduates. Everyone thought it was a lock for highly compensated jobs right out of school. Colleges and universities currently have overpopulated CS pipelines that dump new grads into an economy and workforce that don’t want employees without years of real world experience. Couple that with the influence AI is currently exerting on the profession and it makes it very risky to pay hundreds of thousands for a degree that could be incredibly devalued by 2030.
Similar threads every month:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1287015.page
Yup, and those posting about CS don't even understand its more than just coding.
We understand recent graduates can’t get jobs.
It would appear over 93% CAN get jobs.
In CS? That’s a huge assumption.
It's math. If new CS grads have 7% unemployment, 93% must be employed or in grad school.
Wow, talk about not understanding the jobs data ... given that you don't actually know how many are in job-specific CS roles vs social media/gig-economy vs grad school, your 93% number is utterly meaningless ...
Wow, explain to us?
Anonymous
12/08/2025 07:49
Subject: Don’t major in CS
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Computer Science has one of the highest unemployment rates for recent graduates. Everyone thought it was a lock for highly compensated jobs right out of school. Colleges and universities currently have overpopulated CS pipelines that dump new grads into an economy and workforce that don’t want employees without years of real world experience. Couple that with the influence AI is currently exerting on the profession and it makes it very risky to pay hundreds of thousands for a degree that could be incredibly devalued by 2030.
Similar threads every month:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1287015.page
Yup, and those posting about CS don't even understand its more than just coding.
We understand recent graduates can’t get jobs.
It would appear over 93% CAN get jobs.
In CS? That’s a huge assumption.
It's math. If new CS grads have 7% unemployment, 93% must be employed or in grad school.
Wow, talk about not understanding the jobs data ... given that you don't actually know how many are in job-specific CS roles vs social media/gig-economy vs grad school, your 93% number is utterly meaningless ...
Anonymous
12/06/2025 21:12
Subject: Don’t major in CS
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Computer Science has one of the highest unemployment rates for recent graduates. Everyone thought it was a lock for highly compensated jobs right out of school. Colleges and universities currently have overpopulated CS pipelines that dump new grads into an economy and workforce that don’t want employees without years of real world experience. Couple that with the influence AI is currently exerting on the profession and it makes it very risky to pay hundreds of thousands for a degree that could be incredibly devalued by 2030.
Similar threads every month:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1287015.page
Yup, and those posting about CS don't even understand its more than just coding.
We understand recent graduates can’t get jobs.
It would appear over 93% CAN get jobs.
In CS? That’s a huge assumption.
It's math. If new CS grads have 7% unemployment, 93% must be employed or in grad school.
Anonymous
12/06/2025 20:28
Subject: Don’t major in CS
Anonymous wrote:Major in what instead. AI? 🤣
Psst, AI is a part of CS.
Anonymous
12/06/2025 19:48
Subject: Don’t major in CS
Anonymous wrote:Correction: don't major in CS is you are just mediocre at it. Those who are very good at it are getting jobs, and internships.
Someone needs to support the AI ecosystem. Those someones are CS people.
+1
Also, pair the CS degree with another degree. Or do engineering and minor in CS, or do economics and minor in CS. Find a meaningful path for using your CS and you will be just fine.
And yes, be good at it. If you have a 3.5+ in any CS/Engineering major, you will go far. If you can barely get a 3.0, you will still get a job, but wont be able to be as choosy initially
Anonymous
12/06/2025 18:00
Subject: Don’t major in CS
Major in what instead. AI? 🤣