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Not to mention the huge gap between supply and demand with respect to CS graduates and jobs. It’s really frustrating to hear so many new grads are struggling t

Not to mention the huge gap between supply and demand with respect to CS graduates and jobs. It’s really frustrating to hear so many new grads are struggling to get hired despite the gigantic investment in CSE. Articles like these point to the failure of the evaluation process as a bottleneck versus the common understanding that supply is limited.

marvin 7y ago
New graduates don't get hired? That's the first I hear about this (recently) anywhere in the world. What's changed?
- choppaface 7y ago
  If you search the article for the string "New college grads" the author indicates he received multiple emails from new grads claiming they couldn't find jobs. Personally I've seen lots of new grads with 4-5 offers and many who were unable to find jobs out of college despite tons of interviewing.
- banner2018 7y ago
  In my 2 decades of making livelihood with programming full time job, I have seen CS grads feeling brain dead while a Starbucks barista writing better coding. I am probably more humble observing people over all these years to admit that anyone can be a programmer given the opportunity and the heart / zest to dig deep be thorough with the solution. The part of recent grads getting job is more related to market conditions, back in 99 recruiter would be happy to hire anyone who have attended the programming 101 while in 2001-2002 no one even wanted to talk to 5 -8 yr experience candidates right after the market crash
banner2018 7y ago
While domestic CS grads can't find jobs , my current manager and other managers who are naturalized citizen want to prefer H1 candidate who are either ethnically alligned or speaking one of their languages. People make fun of having rejected non H1 candidate. Being a naturalized citizen I was hired so I will keep quite with the discrimination and sympathize with H1 as getting job else where is difficult for H1. I did finally file a EEOC case in MD (531-2019-01105) to document the discrimination done by Naturalized citizens. Hopefully when our kids go look for jobs, they don't have to be party to discrimination. If you feel this needs support call a Congress man or senator to take look.

marvin 7y ago

New graduates don't get hired? That's the first I hear about this (recently) anywhere in the world. What's changed?

choppaface 7y ago
If you search the article for the string "New college grads" the author indicates he received multiple emails from new grads claiming they couldn't find jobs. Personally I've seen lots of new grads with 4-5 offers and many who were unable to find jobs out of college despite tons of interviewing.
banner2018 7y ago
In my 2 decades of making livelihood with programming full time job, I have seen CS grads feeling brain dead while a Starbucks barista writing better coding. I am probably more humble observing people over all these years to admit that anyone can be a programmer given the opportunity and the heart / zest to dig deep be thorough with the solution. The part of recent grads getting job is more related to market conditions, back in 99 recruiter would be happy to hire anyone who have attended the programming 101 while in 2001-2002 no one even wanted to talk to 5 -8 yr experience candidates right after the market crash

banner2018 7y ago

While domestic CS grads can't find jobs , my current manager and other managers who are naturalized citizen want to prefer H1 candidate who are either ethnically alligned or speaking one of their languages. People make fun of having rejected non H1 candidate. Being a naturalized citizen I was hired so I will keep quite with the discrimination and sympathize with H1 as getting job else where is difficult for H1. I did finally file a EEOC case in MD (531-2019-01105) to document the discrimination done by Naturalized citizens. Hopefully when our kids go look for jobs, they don't have to be party to discrimination. If you feel this needs support call a Congress man or senator to take look.