The industry has definitely changed, but a CS degree has never completely prepared anyone to be a professional software engineer. There have always been a larg

The industry has definitely changed, but a CS degree has never completely prepared anyone to be a professional software engineer. There have always been a large set of practical skills that aren't really taught as core CS curriculum, but most professional software engineers are going to need to be comfortable with: the version control software of the day, ways of managing runtime considerations of an application (which has obviously evolved a lot recently), certainly programming languages as well.