What if you are that kind of person who only studies to get into a position of wealth and power? You can never go back to the day you foolishly picked CS over law school!
Crikey - Law is even more fraught with risk on there being a positive outcome (Weirdly, there's an excess of Lawyers and Accountants in most jurisdictions, and a hang of a lot of graduates end up on minimum wage, if they get to practice at all)
The thing about CS, and ENG in general, is that it's less about who you know and more about what you know, which is a real leveller.
Right now, though, there's a pull back from the FAANGs and other big tech, which IMO is a measure of the cost of/appetite for risk at the moment (read: interest rates) as well as a well publicised miss or two (Twitter, Facebook's Metaverse).
Is it all over for Big Tech? Really hard to say, dot com bubble didn't end it. Outsourcing never eventuated (despite what recruiters are saying about remote workers having to reduce their salary expectations, because of the competition from overseas, the truth is that companies that take their ENG over seas end up paying twice as much to clean it back up when they eventually have to bring it back in house)
> You can never go back to the day you foolishly picked CS over law school!
You can do CS and then do law school, what you can’t undo is the time you invested into building a legal career rather than a software development career after school, or vice versa. (OTOH, there’s also ways you could leverage either start into an advantage in the other career, because both are fields that reward knowledge of the application domain as well as the career field, and both are fields where the other is a legitimate application domain, so its not a total loss.)
Same. It's annoying these websites think they are so special and magical they have the audacity to require us to login or even to pay to access words on the screen. Words are no longer valuable. They are lucky to even get any clicks at all.
If they're no longer valuable, why is it annoying and audacious that these websites are asking for payment? Is it an insult to make such a presumption from the viewpoint of the authors?
If words are worthless now, I imagine that reading my comment is equally worthless as reading the article, so therefore it should be no skin off your back/not anything to be annoyed by.
but, so what? you go to any other computer-related job, maybe even for minimal wage
and put effort into learning and gettings skills and then you try to get into these high comp jobs.
Is it privilege or delusion that grads want to start with top tech companies?