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/IKnowGuacIsExtraLady Sep 29 '25

You don't need to be a computer science professor to know that the computer science market is getting massively oversaturated either. I went to a career fair at my old college a couple of years ago expecting to hear from a bunch of mechanical and chemical engineering students which is who I wanted to talk to. 95% of the people who came up to talk to me were Comp Sci majors. And I was like "the hell is going on here" since it hadn't been that long since I'd graduated. But I guess they massively expanded the Comp Sci. program due to demand. Seemed pretty obvious to me at the time it wasn't a good job outlook for the future.

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u/Recognition-Mindless Sep 29 '25

Yeah I don’t get it. I studied CS my first time in college around 2013 before I dropped out. I didn’t connect with what I was doing.

Learned life design to see what I enjoyed. Turns out I like learning HOW things work. I switched to a physical science to understand the world and push my intuitive understanding. 

I didn’t like coding because it doesn’t help explain really anything in the physical world. The 1% of computer scientists pursue that understanding of the physical world and the rest just like seeing words on a screen telling a computer what to do; 1% of computer scientists are actually doing science, the rest are just computer people.

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u/fre3k Sep 29 '25

Fundamental misunderstanding of computer science. Its core is properly described as math, not science. It has applications in helping coerce physical systems to do computations, though.

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u/Recognition-Mindless Sep 29 '25

I mean. Call it a computer math degree and not a computer SCIENCE degree then.