Are Job Prospects Really That Bad in the Tech Industry?
Are you feeling discouraged by the oversaturation and offshoring of tech jobs?
Job Market Realities
– It’s not just tech; many skilled fields struggle
– Medicine and accounting face challenges too
Stay Positive
– Remain optimistic about the job market improving
– Choose CS for the right reasons and weather the storm
Supporting Each Other
– Be mindful of mental health struggles related to job prospects
– Offer support to friends in various industries facing similar challenges
Can you give examples of other carrer subs that are going through the same?
Shut up bro, i need at least half of these normies to do something else so i can get a job once i graduate
Job searching is a skill in itself; it’s worth getting good at rather than being a beneficiary or a victim of a good or bad market. Being a stable and positive human being is also an advantage over people who aren’t.
No one is acting like CS is the only field affected. We talk about CS only because that’s the point of the sub and what we are interested in.
Nah man the construction industry is BOOMING right now
According to what I’ve read, there’s a “white collar jobs recession” going on right now. There are several factors feeding into it including companies cutting back on expansion due to high interest rates, reducing redundant positions that were added during boom times and anticipating tough times in the near future. This is being offset in the employment numbers by strong blue collar and service jobs hiring. It’s easy to get a job washing dishes, waiting tables or building widgets for $20/hr in most areas.
There is too much mediocre talent in software engineering… The days where you graduate, and a six figure job is just waiting for you…are done… This is not just a temporary thing.
I’m old enough to know that things go in cycles and that it’s not the end of the world if you don’t find that $250k FAANG 100% remote job right out of college. All I take from these gloom and doom posts is that most young people don’t want to start from the bottom or take an alternate route.
The market is already getting slightly better. I think it was the worst during 2023 maybe.
Posts like these are the equivalent of gunshots in the air to keep your rent down
I was at my brother’s college of engineering graduation ceremony and it was wild to watch. Maybe 40% of the bachelors degrees that crossed the stage were computer science majors, and that’s across ALL the engineering majors they had.
I started my computer science degree the year after the dot com boom crash. Things improved by the time I was finished. The current issue is to do with interest rates more than LLMs. When, we get AGI, that is when things will get really interesting.
The fact is there are major issues in tech that were caused by h1b.
You people need to pick a script. Which one is—are people dramatizing what’s happening in the industry or is it as bad as the “doom posters” say it is (and the issue is across all industries)?
Everything is cyclical, in 10 years there will be too many people in trades and not enough in white collar (this is what happened during the 2008 recession).
Don’t disabuse them of the notion they should exit the market. Means more room for the rest of us.
Regardless if we are talking about CS or another field of study, part of the problem is that everyone these days wants a degree but the overall supply of jobs is lower than the overall demand, hence a lot of new grads are left jobless. I am not saying this to discourage anyone from getting a degree, but to point out a fundamental issue.
Back in the 1980s, the U.S. census bureau reported that apparently only 20% of people had earned a bachelor’s degree or higher. (Look up “educational attainment 1980”.) There seemed to be a greater supply of bachelor-level jobs than people getting a degree.
Currently, this educational attainment number has risen to 35% as of 2018. I can only imagine this number is higher now. I don’t want to give a definitive answer, but I would not be surprised if it is at least 40% now.
So basically, the number of people getting bachelor’s degrees and above has doubled in the last 40 years, but has the number of white collar jobs requiring a degree _actually_ doubled since then?
Then we have to take into account the current market state. It isn’t great overall, so as a result, many companies “are on a budget” when it comes to hiring.
Lol copium. If anything, people working hard to be licensed professionals should be rewarded, not this rock bottom entry to barrier shit.
Fr needed to be said