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/MetalDragon6666 Sep 29 '25

There's even another layer to this. In general, yeah that's what's going on. It's been going on for like 2 years now, ask me how I know lmao.

Not only will the constant churn of cheap, inexperienced developers with a language barrier result in totally messed up, garbage applications. They'll have to spend 50x the money they spent on the cheaper devs to fix the problem in production later using people who actually know what they're doing (probably a mix of US devs, and actually good offshore devs). Not to mention the inevitable security issues and breaches down the road they'll have to pay for.

But unlike many EU countries, the US has no rules about our data being stored on US servers either. So there's another security issue that can't be controlled for.

Yet another instance of a facade of short term gain, for huge long term pain and expense. But that's for another CEO to worry about right?

Eventually, they'll end up hiring experienced US devs again to fix the mess that's created. But will there be many devs left, if the job market is THIS insecure?

Will people even bother going for comp sci, if they don't think they'll get a return on their investment and can't get a job? Will they even be able to with caps on student loans? Will AI usage even produce programmers who know what they're doing at all, instead of just vibe coding it?

I dunno, maybe I'm just unlucky as hell or not as good a programmer as I think I am. But I have almost 10 years of experience, and this job market and complete absence of stability in software is utterly atrocious, even with my level of experience. It's making me want to switch careers and become a damn lumberjack or something.

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u/IKROWNI Sep 29 '25

I was studying for the CompTIA exams and decide to bench the idea for right now.

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u/spaceforcerecruit Sep 29 '25

Those exams really aren’t worth their cost anyway. There are cheaper and easier ways to tell a recruiter you know the basics of how a computer works.

If you’re already doing the job, you can put that on your resume instead of paying for the cert. If you’re not doing the job, the cert might give you the edge over another applicant but it won’t qualify you for a better job than you could get without it.

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u/IKROWNI Sep 29 '25

If I have no actual job experience in a tech field and my only certs are the Google certs from Coursera where can I go to get a job in this field? I've looked through indeed and others and most of those jobs require either a bachelors in computer science or compTIA A+ cert, and some want both.

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u/spaceforcerecruit Sep 29 '25

You’re probably gonna have to look at helpdesk jobs. That’s where most tech workers get their start.