Qualified individuals with computer science degrees are struggling to find employment due to a lack of practical skills

Signals over time

2 observed signals across 1 sources, tracked for 6 days. Confidence: low.

What people are saying Observed

• “"It is no secret that the programmer job market is bad right now, and I am seeing good CS students struggle to find positions programming. While I do not have a crystal ball, I believe this is a temporary rather than permanent situation." Yep, any day now people will stop using AI and all the jobs will come back. Of course the author believes this if they're a professor. If students didn't think they had a job they wouldn't want to study comp sci and there would be no reason for professor for it, either. Even though they have a kid doing comp sci, gotta call them out of touch if they're not steering away that choice given what tech is today...”

  Hacker News · frustration

• “There are a plethora of qualified Americans with CS degrees sitting unemployed. There's also a plethora of people with CS degrees who can't even write FizzBuzz on their own, even given a warmed-up IDE and a partially filled out skeleton of the program. And no, this is not idle speculation, I've interviewed quite a few of these people. So I wouldn't personally put much stock in "has a CS degree" as a marker of qualification for any particular job. That applies, of course, regardless of nationality. Having worked with a lot of foreign tech workers - I’d take the Americans any day. Having worked with many Americans and many non-Americans over the last 35+ years, I'd say there's no general difference in ability that correlates to nationality. I've worked with dumb Americans and dumb non-Americans, and vice-versa.”

  Hacker News · frustration