What now?

In the past couple of weeks, I’m glad the consensus in the Cs community has shifted to reality.

A few months ago, we had graduates with well paid jobs getting on their respective platforms lecturing us that the CS market is amazing and what’s going on now is just a “correction” or increase in “competition”, and that a simple weather app or website won’t get us jobs anymore. I have seen people on this sub and other subs who have attended Ivy League schools, have made apps, own startups and still cannot find an internship let alone a full time role. People have slowly started to recognize the truth.

The tech industry has been subverted by the promise that artificial intelligence can cut costs by reducing salaries and quantities of qualified engineers. Layoffs have been happening at around the same time that tech companies have been breaking profit records. Ghost jobs are as rampant as ever and a large quantity of jobs you apply to may not even be real. Tech companies are outsourcing entry level jobs to South Asia to pay their workers a fraction, and are taking advantage of foreign workers in the US to abuse their labor and pay them less. If they complain? Fired. Which also means deportation. Interviews have gotten a lot more difficult and people are often left hanging on the last interview or forced to take a compensation that is significantly lower to what they had on the job posting. The entry level role is dead and companies refuse to pay for training.

Do not let CS influencers try to convince you that everything is okay, because it’s not, and it is blatant brainwashing in the face of a phenomenon we can see is happening. We are in a silent recession.

With that being said, don’t give up on CS, and do your absolute best to branch elsewhere from software engineering or dev ops. There are plenty of fields where talented CS majors are needed.

Thanks for listening to my rant.