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For some reason people never mention this, but aren't there also much more people graduating with CS degrees than ever before?
by dauertewigkeit 2mo ago
For some reason people never mention this, but aren't there also much more people graduating with CS degrees than ever before?
- WarmWash 2mo agoPretty much no other engineering field made sense to go into for about a decade. Even kids who did go EE, Mech E, or even Chem E ended up taking software jobs. The pay, benefits, and work/life balance of SWE just absolutely obliterates everything else. Or did at least
- whateveracct 2mo agoDegrees take 4 years. It's a very laggy indicator.
- AnimalMuppet 2mo agoPeople can switch majors. But despite me saying that, I think it's going to take longer than four years. It takes a while for people to realize that a dream is dead.
- nwatson 2mo agoSome companies hire junior devs to adopt AI-first practices to then drag their seniors in the same direction.
- AnimalMuppet 2mo agoJuniors to push the accelerator, seniors to pump the brakes. It could work.
- pydry 2mo agoThis is a reliable recipe for turning your systems into an absolute clusterfuck.
- whateveracct 2mo agoshould be a fun decade :)
- francisofascii 2mo agoRight. CS Enrollments dropped 8% this year. High schoolers got the message.
- doctorwho42 2mo agoAnd how do you think people go from fresh graduates to senior devs?