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Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates (www.newsweek.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Published earlier this year, but still relevant.

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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

What CS subfield? I think it really depends if you were able to specialize somewhat. At least systems programming and lower level coding seems to be somewhat in demand once you get into the field. Even given the current economy we aren't really getting much interest from students.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Over the years I have tried a handful of subfields.

    I always felt particularly adept at assembly language programming, so I had a couple projects doing that, and applied to every relevent job I could find.

    As a math nerd I enjoyed data science and machine learning, I had quite a few projects like a neutral network from scratch in Matlab, and many data analysis and computer vision projects in R. I was always aware this field is very competitive and my chances were low here.

    I had a friend get a job in the biomedical field, so I tried to follow that, I have Python projects doing basic gene sequencing and analysis, even a really cool project that replicated evolution.

    Another friend landed a government job, so I followed his advice and got some security certs.

    I also had smaller projects and attempts at databases, finance programming, and video games.

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