Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Well yeah, when the tech industry went through multiple waves of massive layoffs, that’s going to be the case in the short term as things shake out.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
And everyone and their dog is trying to get into tech. The industry is bound to get saturated eventually…
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’d it’s already saturated if we’re looking at high unemployment in the sector.
derpgon@programming.dev 2 months ago
Not necessarily, it might mean it I’d an industry easy to get into, but hard to master. If I was short on people, and inexperienced person might actually make mistakes that require even more work to fix.
Everyone thinks they are Mr Robot after they let ChatGPT create a simple HTML page. No, they are not, and they won’t even pass as a junior. Surprise surprise, you have to know the basics.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Yup. We’re hiring, but the candidate pool is a minefield of utter trash, so it takes a while to hire despite having hundreds of applicants. We don’t expect much beyond basic competency, but apparently that’s too much to ask sometimes.