Because it seems like a high status career choice when you are 21, other 21 year olds will be jealous. It's also a good place to get a lot of practical experie

Because it seems like a high status career choice when you are 21, other 21 year olds will be jealous. It's also a good place to get a lot of practical experience actually writing code, ex games programmers tend to be pretty good at taking a big messy code soup and turning it into something that actually works.