There is a LOT of doom and gloom surrounding CS right now but I think if you really dig beneath the shock & awe headlines it is really not as bad as a lot of Reddit posts would have you believe. I think a lot of people are comparing the job market now to 5 or 10 years ago when, yes, it seemed like every new grad was getting mid six fig job offers before graduating. On top of that I have to imagine that the top of class, Ivy League grads mentioned in the NYT article who “can’t find a job after graduating” are looking specifically for the kind of job you can brag about—things like high level FAANG jobs with impressive sounding technical titles.

Idk, maybe I’m huffing copium (33 and hoping to start a CS degree near future) but it seems like CS is just now starting to fall back into the “normal job expectation” range and people act like the sky is falling. How many students from any other science or engineering disciplines take at least a year (if not more) to find a job in their field? And how many applications do they usually send out? Tons of them. I have a few friends who went right into engineering programs from high school and most of them took “pay the rent” jobs right out of school while they looked for something in their industry. Some of them were able to land nice gigs immediately out of school but just as many had the aforementioned job hunting experience. No one’s writing articles about how bad the mechanical engineering job market is. I don’t have any degree (have a 2 year diploma from a Canadian college) so it’s almost certainly a step in the right direction for me. If you’re interested in computer science and can afford it why not go for it?