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Instead of grouping people together with stem we could have a categorization that species people who can reasonably get a job as software engineers and then all
by NotSammyHagar 8y ago
Instead of grouping people together with stem we could have a categorization that species people who can reasonably get a job as software engineers and then all other stem. Because isn't that really it? Bio seems much harder to do dev work, but it's common for mech engr, ee, some physics and math.
- sgillen 8y agoI think job prospects for most engineering majors is still very good even if they don't want to do dev work.
- TheOtherHobbes 8y agoIn the UK CS is one of the least effective ways to be employed. The catch is that other grads will do terrible work like waiting on tables, while CS grads usually won't. So "employed" is a relative term. Stats for "gainfully directly employed in work that relies on their major" are harder to come by. Even so. Anyone who thinks they can do a CS degree here and walk into a well-paid job is deluding themselves.
- geomark 8y agoI am surprised to hear that. I have no personal experience with it, but anecdotally, the son of a friend who recently graduated in CS from Newcastle said he and all his classmates had multiple offers upon graduating. Although, he did say the work was not what he had hoped for. He was hoping for a position in game development or distributed systems and ended up at a company doing POS terminals software.
- ncmncm 8y agoJob prospects are good until they are bad. The most enduring experience for most engineers is periodic mass layoffs.