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"Computer science ranked seventh amongst undergraduate majors with the highest unemployment at 6.1 percent, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York."
by mlrtime 1y ago
"Computer science ranked seventh amongst undergraduate majors with the highest unemployment at 6.1 percent, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York."
https://www.newsweek.com/computer-science-popular-college-major-has-one-highest-unemployment-rates-2076514 https://www.newsweek.com/computer-science-popular-college-ma...
Obviously there is not going to be a drop of 200k overnight, but I think the graduates of CS will be thankful there are more opportunities for them. These opportunities will drive more students to take CS classes in the US.
- jiscariot 1y agoI wonder what effect the US's heavy reliance on HB1 visas (and off-shoring more broadly) has had on the size of the cohorts graduating with CS degrees. All I have is anecdotal conversations of people avoiding tech under the assumption that writing code would be off-shored.
- jameshart 1y agoWell, historically a significant portion of the graduating cohort in top CS programs in the US has been overseas students.
- jameshart 1y agoThis reflects that there are just less openings overall. In a shrinking job market layoffs have already disproportionately gone to H1B holders; future layoffs, if this policy is implemented, will further erode H1B numbers, but it won’t magic up more domestic engineering job openings. You know what would provide job growth in high tech? Economic growth and expanding prosperity in the economy overall.