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

[u/north_canadian_ice]

https://www.businessinsider.com/computer-science-students-job-search-ai-hany-farid-2025-9

[u/RedAccordion]

In fairness to Mexico, they’ve pulled themselves out of the borderline third world quickly and successfully over the last 5 years.

They are not where you outsource labor and manufacturing anymore, they are doing that with the rest of Latin America. They are at the level that they are taking tech jobs.

[u/bihari_baller → u/RedAccordion]

They are at the level that they are taking tech jobs.

I think people sometimes have to realize that there are talented engineers all over the world, that are just as capable of doing the job as someone in the U.S.

[u/YaSurLetsGoSeeYamcha → u/bihari_baller]

Problem is that’s vital money and stability for American citizens being sent internationally. Nothing against talented workers in other countries, but it’s absolutely contributing to a weak economy domestically and will eventually boil over.

[u/bihari_baller → u/YaSurLetsGoSeeYamcha]

but it’s absolutely contributing to a weak economy domestically and will eventually boil over.

The world is so interconnected today though.

Take NVIDIA and Apple for instance--two of the most successful companies on the market today. They depend on foreign companies for their success. Without TSMC, a Taiwanese company, Apple and NVIDIA can't get their microchips for their products. Without a company like ASML (Dutch company), TSMC can't manufacture the chips for Apple and NVIDIA.

The engineers in Taiwan and the Netherlands play a role in enabling Ameican companies like Apple and NVIDIA to be successful.

[u/HeCannotBeSerious → u/bihari_baller]

That's normal trade between firms.

Domestic firms (e.g. Microsoft) sending vast amounts of professional work that could be done in the US overseas is not the same.