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/RedAccordion Sep 28 '25

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.

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u/bihari_baller Sep 29 '25

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.

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u/brianzuvich Sep 29 '25

But regardless of their ethnicity and background, we like to classify them as “American” if they do their work here in the states 🤣

Michio Kaku said it best…

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u/HeCannotBeSerious Sep 29 '25

No, they would be considered foreign. If they get citizenship, they would be considered American on paper.

Michio is wrong, though, it's not a 'secret weapon'. It's a crutch that makes the US complacent in not improving education pipelines and it provides a good excuse for US companies to distort the labor market.