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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)

IDK about most. But, I've seen many OS contributors say they're looking for work. Seen one recently saying he won't be contributing much to the project anymore because he's housing-insecure. Seen maintainers for popular projects get laid off and are now looking for work. Seen people with 10+ and 20+ years of experience not being able to find a job after many months.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    Yeah there are obviously unfortunate cases. But to put another unsourced number out there I would say 90% of open source maintainers are employed in some way or even directly to work on that thing.

    The point of bringing it up is that those people would gladly give a pass on an interview to someone they already know contributes than some random graduate they don't know.

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