A popular college major has one of the highest unemployment rates
www.newsweek.com
"Every kid with a laptop thinks they're the next Zuckerberg, but most can't debug their way out of a paper bag," one expert told Newsweek.

Published earlier this year, but still relevant.

  • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    0% of the fault lays on the students who got the degrees they were told were in demand by every single adult in ther life.

    This was a coordinated push by our government and tech sector to drive down the cost of skilled labor by oversaturating the field.

    I say this as a CS major that was forced to work fast food for 6 years until I could find a shitty tech support job and work my way up from there, there was never a single opportunity for me to be a programmer like I intended.