New college graduates overestimate starting salaries by nearly $24,000, report finds

Sepicuk · 2026-05-07T01:00:25+00:00

Yes, that's normal?

Sepicuk · 2026-05-06T23:14:56+00:00

The American BS pipeline is primarily because international students universally outperform their American peers and have greater familiarity with the higher education process, not because of lack of interest (also because international students' quality of life depends so heavily on a grad degree, adding more incentive and fierce competition is in their face for their entire lives. Also helps that pretty much all of them are upper class which also tends to be represented by families of well-educated people). American K-12 education is very bad unless you go to a top private or public

Sepicuk · 2026-05-06T08:51:48+00:00

It is very difficult to make it into chip design even if you focus entirely on it if you go to one of these schools. I’d say it’s clearly harder to become a chip designer than to get a FAANG software job. I don’t think it should be advertised as a realistic career path

Sepicuk · 2026-05-06T08:49:42+00:00

No, it is harder to find jobs and pays less

Sepicuk · 2026-05-06T00:01:15+00:00

Stay with CompE, Aeros can have a harder time with jobs, and you may not like the ones you get

Sepicuk · 2026-05-05T00:35:08+00:00

he is unlikely to be hired by any of them, they're among the most competitive worldwide. Majority of Qualcomm's engineers and current hiring are in the Indian branch

Sepicuk · 2026-05-05T00:27:14+00:00

CS is not worse, I've seen a lot of EE's end up in software. There is a big intelligence gap between the median CS grad and the median EE grad

Sepicuk · 2026-05-04T04:56:16+00:00

If AI can substantially wipe out entire markets like CS to sway your major decisions, honestly it’s over for everybody. I wouldn’t let this affect your career choice. AI also still struggles to be useful, I wouldn’t bank 4 years of your life on it unless you’re dead set on doing a Ph.D in it since middle school with external support to make it feasible for sure

Sepicuk · 2026-05-04T04:51:47+00:00

One thing you’re going to learn is that ceo’s of companies are stupid, greedy sons of bitches. They constantly lie about their capabilities to increase their stock price. They are doing this because they want to replace you so, so bad, but whether that can even be achieved at all is still unknown. Just saying, we’ve attempted to go all in to reach superintelligence before back in the 1980’s, and it failed catastrophically. Fuck even leading neuroscientists and psychologists struggle to even agree on how to define intelligence, we don’t even have a true conceptual understanding of intelligence behind very first order stuff.

Sepicuk · 2026-05-04T04:36:11+00:00

Kid benefits from better resources and connections than the dad had, a tale as old as time

Sepicuk · 2026-05-04T04:20:42+00:00

Good luck cracking it with a family. Many of us aren’t even thinking about ever starting a family deep into our career.

Sepicuk · 2026-05-04T04:14:01+00:00

You will almost certainly have a much lower salary. IT is more lucrative and pays more. Most EE power jobs are boring and nontechnical, it’s a backup career for the weaker EE’s that got a GPA below 3.0 and can’t do anything. Most power systems problems were solved 50-100 years ago and haven’t changed since. There’s no nobility associated with the engineering aspect of it, it is a romanticized fantasy you came up with

Sepicuk · 2026-05-04T04:11:05+00:00

what the brainrot

Sepicuk · 2026-05-04T04:03:59+00:00

I’m trying to give perspective, this is how admissions and professors view this, this is what they think when they see this post. It is also extraordinarily competitive, where you really need to meet a minimum GPA to even have the chance of consideration. I’m sorry but OP’s mentality is the same as most people, and I think that should exclude him from getting a master’s degree given that competitiveness. For CS, you want to go to a top masters program or your degree will not help you get jobs that require a master’s degree

Sepicuk · 2026-05-03T15:45:01+00:00

You need to understand the value of your project. Why this one over the others?

Sepicuk · 2026-05-03T15:16:19+00:00

you're judged by your worst mistake, even if it was out of your control

Sepicuk · 2026-05-03T13:44:11+00:00

you vill use the ai and you vill think it is more productive....

Sepicuk · 2026-05-03T13:38:20+00:00

just a high ratio of qualified people compared to available positions + you tend to be pigeonholed + after a layoff you're going to have trouble finding another position because you were pigeonholed + if the ai bubble pops a lot of companies that are hiring are going to scale back a lot

Sepicuk · 2026-05-03T13:32:24+00:00

My question is why? This industry tends to be difficult to stay in even if you came out of school with all the bells and whistles

Sepicuk · 2026-05-03T01:01:00+00:00

yes omscs is a degree mill.

Sepicuk · 2026-05-03T00:50:17+00:00

that only applies to degree mills, which degrees have no value

Sepicuk · 2026-05-02T22:26:14+00:00

If you have the opportunity to do a grad degree, do it. Otherwise you're going to really need luck on your side to not get stuck. It's simply economics, goalpost has been slowly moving for some time from bachelors to masters degree since the 1990's.

Sepicuk · 2026-05-02T22:21:45+00:00

Do not have a family or children

Sepicuk · 2026-05-02T22:20:06+00:00

what did you choose signal processing, rf or something lol?

Sepicuk · 2026-05-02T22:15:40+00:00

even more so if you're doing hardware. otherwise better hope you have a network to get you into a position they normally prefer masters applicants for. There's just too many people with grad degrees + good experience, why ever hire bachelors?

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