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Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates
(www.newsweek.com)
this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2025
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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.
And everyone and their dog is trying to get into tech. The industry is bound to get saturated eventually...
I’d it’s already saturated if we’re looking at high unemployment in the sector.
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.
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.
To the tech people listening... I was high up in many areas for a few decades but I left it all behind. There is still a massive talent-acquisition problem, not just in tech but every industry, that is just waiting to be solved. The departments and staff tasked with hiring are not competent, nor capable of connecting qualified applicants to jobs. The entire hiring system is broken as fuck, and the "job boards" and apps didn't fix it, they made it far, far worse for everybody on all sides.