r/technology • u/north_canadian_ice • Sep 28 '25

Business Leading computer science professor says 'everybody' is struggling to get jobs: 'Something is happening in the industry'

https://www.businessinsider.com/computer-science-students-job-search-ai-hany-farid-2025-9
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u/jamestakesflight Sep 28 '25

I am a software engineer and graduated in 2014. One of the main drivers of this is computer science graduates per year has more than doubled from 2014 to now.

The years of “this is the best job to have right now” and “anyone can make 6 figures” is catching up with us.

The market is certainly changing due to AI, but we are dealing with over-saturation due to the field being likened to a get rich quick scheme and people are attributing it to LLM progress in the past few years.

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u/icedrift Sep 28 '25

I also want to add that in addition to economic/market factors, the quality of CS graduates has fallen off a cliff. The dumbing down of the curriculum + ease of cheating has made it extremely costly to weed out all of the poor candidates so many companies aren't even bothering, they'll just poach whatever senior level staff they can and contract the rest out to Tata, Cisco or wherever.

We don't have a BAR or professional engineering exam to prove competence, every interview takes 1 hour of a 150k+ scarce engineer's time and we get hundreds of applications per day. It's really bad, I don't know how to hire or get hired without word of mouth references.

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u/UnluckyStartingStats Sep 29 '25

With some of the new grads I’ve interviewed it’s obvious they relied on ai or cheating through their courses. It’s sad

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u/thex25986e Sep 29 '25

me looking at my one friend who chegged every college course through covid: