this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2026
883 points (99.3% liked)
Technology
85526 readers
4421 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Well if they have degrees in software engineering, certainly.
Where have you been the last few years lol, new CS grads aren't exactly doing well at the moment.
They're still doing better than a lot of fields. I mean when you factor in compensation it's still one of the best fields to be in. Compare to a teacher, where you'll need a master's degree in most states and then you can expect a salary around 40k. Whereas with software, when you do find a job it's not unusual to start over 100k. But if you were willing to work for half that, I bet you'd find something quick.
CS has a pretty high unpemployment rate and that was pre-covid too. yea maybe it was meant for grad school from the sounds of it.
They aren't paying 100k for some fresh grad they need to train. They will pay them to train their AI models at the lowest possible price point though.
cs hasnt bee doing well for more than 10+years. one of the first thing i looked at on a different forum from that long ago, cs and one other stem was has pretty poor job prospects non-health bio, and cs.