Just so I don’t come off as elitist, I graduated from a no name state school in the south with a degree in computer science. But that was in the 90s. My persp

Just so I don’t come off as elitist, I graduated from a no name state school in the south with a degree in computer science. But that was in the 90s. My perspective though is going to come from someone who worked at Amazon (AWS) in 2020-2023 and mentored a couple of interns who got return offers the next year. Companies aren’t recruiting for the most part from tier 2 schools and it’s hard to get an internship. I was also looking for a job in late 2023 as someone who was experienced, credentialed, networked, etc. The market for developers sucks right now. I would have probably had a hard time finding a job if it weren’t for my network and a couple of niches where I’m one of the industry experts. When I submitted my job to hundreds of jobs as a Plan b, I heard crickets there are a lot of people chasing few jobs and to a first approximation, no one wants entry level developers. It’s getting worse as AI improves. Anecdotally, there are projects I lead now that I would have needed at least one entry level developer to do the grunt work that I can just do myself using ChatGPT. I would even go as far as saying if he doesn’t go to one of the top schools that companies recruit from, don’t even bother with a CS degree. Get a degree in something else and maybe take some CS electives if he can’t get a degree from a top school. What that something else is? I have no idea.