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I think job prospects for most engineering majors is still very good even if they don't want to do dev work.

• TheOtherHobbes 8y ago
  In 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 ago
    I 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 ago
  Job prospects are good until they are bad. The most enduring experience for most engineers is periodic mass layoffs.