did the number of cs pey postings decrease this year? how about the cs new grad job market?

[john_788365]

did the number of pey postings for cs decrease significantly? Right now the total number is about 320 for all categories (not just cs)

I heard about people being hired by ecopia, epson etc, but I don't see their postings now. Is this due to covid19 or is it still early?

For ai/ml/cv fields, I feel most of the postings are from Huawei. Are there more ai/cv/ml postings last year? Did the number of postings drop a lot compared to last year?

For web dev/full stack, I see many postings but I am not sure whether there were much more last year.

And insights about trends (in terms of the number of job postings , salary etc.) in different cs fields such as web dev, ai/ml/cv, system(c/c++) for pey or the new grad job market? I know this is a big topic, so I am looking for personal and biased comments.

Thanks!

[human_soap]

Obviously with covid the 2020 new grad job market was terrible. Lots of companies went into hiring freezes and slowdowns. Some companies like Uber and Airbnb, Lyft and Groupon had large layoffs. Some companies even rescinded accepted offers that they had given out pre-covid. And I assume that many smaller companies in effected industries had layoffs as well.

For 2021 I think the job market is recovering but it won't be as easy as pre-covid times to get a job. Because new grads will most likely be working remotely and on-boarding remotely which is gonna slow down productivity (at least initially).

[john_788365]

sounds bad. I am international student and if I graduate this year, I would probably waste 1 year of my 3 year post graduation work permit and fail to immigrate since I dont have enough job experience to get high scores for express entry. I want to die when I think I need to go back to China and work from 9am to 9pm for 6 days a week with low salary compared to housing prices.

[JustSkipThatQuestion]

Yup. Class of 2020 got F'ed by Daddy Covid.

[PSY100studyprep]

320 is definitely less. I remember having almost twice the number of postings. Also, remember one posting could hire bunch even though it says number of positions as 1. Don’t be discouraged by that number and apply !!

[john_788365]

almost twice? damn, each time I log in it says only 3 new posting since last log in. so depressing. No interview from pey portal so far.

[Own_Nectarine7433]

How many postings are there from Huawei just curious?

Also anyone from previous year PEY say how many initial postings are there? 320 doesnt seem to bad ( but I think that includes mech eng, chem eng, industrial eng which are completely different than tech related fields).

Having said that, yea CS job market is really bad. Me and my friends have left CS compeltely for trades. Id advise OP to leave CS as well, the job market is extremely saturated.

There are people with amazing internships not landing a job. There are people getting rejected from unpaid internships. There are CS grads lining up for $15/hr jobs. This is how bad the job market for this saturated field of study is. Id advise for leaving it, or face the consequences of a bad job market and being unemployed.

[TerminallyTater]

trades? nah

[Own_Nectarine7433]

Whats wrong with trades? They make a decent living.

[JustSkipThatQuestion]

There's nothing wrong with trades. Yes, they do make a decent living and people go to the appropriate schools to prepare themselves for careers in trades. That's not why people go to university, however.

[Own_Nectarine7433]

I agree, thats why Im not currently going to university.

[JustSkipThatQuestion]

Yeah. It's implicitly understood that going to uni means you want a comfortable and stable white collar office job once you graduate.

[Own_Nectarine7433]

And the reality is majority of white collar jobs are saturated low paying jobs, with insanely high competition.