Will college guarenteed me a software engineering job in CS?Live in queens
>>34145979>CSmeme degree
>>34145979Yes. Boomer here, went to state college for a BSCS degree and had multiple job offers months before I graduated.
>>34146420OK boomer. One thing you have to realize is the job market is different now then when you went to college. Companies aren't hiring as many software engineers because they are outsourcing to AI. It's a stupid decision on the part of the companies because AI isn't quite there yet and it'll cost the companies who are making that move now. But this does mean software engineering job opportunities are lower.
>>34146432Is it significantly different now than it was when I changed employers last year? Because I literally got my first interview 3 days after I started looking, and accepted the offer for my current position less than 3 weeks after I started looking. It sounds like you either don't know CS, or you don't know how to network.
>>34145979>guarenteedNo
>>34146447Not him but which country are you in? In Australia, entry level CS jobs (including software dev and engineering) are some of the most competitive entry level jobs to get into for office jobs.
>>34145979Stay away from computer science unless your school is structured differently, in my experience information technology is the software development degree you would go for
>>34146772Texas
>guarenteed me a software engineering jobNo.When you graduate, be in the top 25% of graduates, apply yourself to finding a job, use all available resources, and you will get something decent.If you graduate in the bottom 50%, only apply to 15 places, or allow a resume gap to grow.... good luck.>>34146432>Companies aren't hiring as many software engineers because they are outsourcing to AI. It's a stupid decision on the part of the companies because AI isn't quite there yet and it'll cost the companies who are making that move now. But this does mean software engineering job opportunities are lower.This isn't quite true, not yet. Positions aren't being directly replaced, but existing engineers are improving productivity and taking care of the tasks that would have gone to juniors faster.
>>34146811Isn't that because all the Silicon Valley IT firms have moved from California to Texas?
>>34146813No. They moved to Round Rock and Plano, not Houston.
>>34146825IDK man you got lucky. I can tell you what it's like for a fact in Australia, at the very least.
I graduated during the housing financial crisis decades ago. I couldn't find a job and didn't really want to look, so I stayed in for grad school. I put in effort to get a MS thesis, open-source projects, assistantships, etc. I was hired by a big four tech company in 2013 about three months after graduating and haven't looked back since. I started doing technical interviews around 2019. Our company doesn't do as many for junior devs anymore, but there are still jobs to be had, if you differentiate yourself from an _unbelievably_ crowded and competitive market.There are other engineering disciplines out there that make just as much money with some of the same problem-solving skills and math basis. It really comes down to matching interests and aptitude with goals, and being aware of opportunities.The idea of GenAI automating literally everything, is still at least 10 years away. It can be an incredibly powerful tool when used right, but generally it leads people into equally complicated / unproductive rabbitholes if they don't know what they are doing. I will say this; it is _obvious_ when candidates are cheating using AI tools.
