What do you think?

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says number of SWEs increasing, AI reducing jobs is nonsense.

At Computex GTC keynote. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSp6AiNIrsY 29:52

I couldn’t find a SWE job so I ended up taking a customer support/call center job. I have a CS degrees and internship experience but this was before everyone used Claude to generate 99% of their code. Curious if this is the median grad? Or do most people have SWE jobs? Is there too much of a gap for me to get a SWE job?

A while ago, I worked for a large transaction processing company where we evaluated and designed processes to automate functions around ATS including screening tools that used voice activated UI. I recently went back to enable their ongoing transformation of recruitment and Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and I recently reviewed Agentic AI interviewers.

I volunteered to be a guinea pig candidate while evaluating the systems and opted for two roles -  a Technical Design Lead and an Application Architect. After attending these interviews, I came away shaking my head over how far we have come! Enabled by LLMs and voice recognition systems these platforms may be just about ready to replace human recruiters and SMEs for candidate interviewing and screening.

A couple of questions jumped out:

• Are you seeing a similar trend in your organizations too?
• How would you feel if you are interviewed and screened by a bot for the next entry/mid/senior level job you are applying for?

Hey r/cscareerquestions ,

Quick disclosure: I'm a marketing intern at a startup called ByAll (byall.ai). We just launched in the US. I'm posting here because the people in this subreddit are exactly who we're trying to help, and I'd rather get torn apart by you now than discover the problems later.

What ByAll does, in one paragraph: Resume filters screen out 88% of applicants before a human reads them. If you're self-taught, switched careers, or don't have brand-name companies on your CV, you already know this. ByAll lets you take a skill assessment instead a hands-on demo plus a short video chat and then you're visible to employers based on what you can actually do. One assessment, no keyword filtering, you keep your score.

Why I'm posting this here (and not running ads): I'd rather know what's broken from people who've been job hunting, than from a marketing dashboard. I'm an intern, I genuinely don't have the budget or the seniority to be running a stealth promo campaign. This is me asking.

Three things I'd love honest answers to:

1. If you visit byall.ai, does the homepage tell you what we do in 10 seconds? Or is it confusing?
2. Would you actually take a 10-minute skill assessment if you knew employers would see your score? Or does that feel like another hoop?
3. What's the single most annoying thing about being a self-taught developer applying for jobs right now? (Even if it's unrelated to us, I want to learn what's broken.)

You don't have to take the assessment. You don't have to sign up. I'm not pasting a referral link or a discount code. Just: take a look if you want, and tell me what you think.

If this post breaks the rules, mods please remove it. I checked the sidebar but I'm new to posting here.

Thanks.

Arun N, Marketing Intern at ByAll

The only criteria I have to work with is software engineering and computer science were actually easier majors than all the engineering programs when I went to school and I understand they made CS easier o er the years due to student demand.

Honestly I see you people getting paid for high margin work I believe I could replace with use of AI and if needed 6-7 day work week. I already had to work 6-7 days in civil engineering for 70k a year.

I am looking at this and being a top student historically and having a license in engineering the pay in tech seems better even if the whole world learned to code surviving 6 months then getting laid off in a 200k job is 100k a year.

I've heard that many hiring managers have bias against those were laid off, which seems like a cruel twist of fate. Is there any truth to this?

Okay some story and context for everyone. I apologize if this is long:

For a good while, I've been working as a case manager for folks experiencing homelessness. A couple years ago, I switched agencies and began working for one that works in administering federal housing grants. My role in this agency mostly involves helping people in homelessness get through the confusing red tape and become eligible for federally funded housing programs. Working for the agency has been a godsend, as the job has paid me more than I ever thought I'd earn in this field for my area (I literally started out in this field making 12 an hour, working the floor at a shelter where we had to face all kinds of crazy situations). The job has also given me the flexibility to go back to school.

I've been taking classes in computer science, and while I'm still pretty early into the degree, working on it along my 9-5, I have found a lot of fulfillment in it. I've been dreaming about getting an opportunity to pivot into the cs career field, and have applied to quite a few entry level analyst and developer jobs with no success.

Now the agency I work for also oversees a statewide database for homeless services. I recently interviewed and just accepted a job in the department that oversees that database as a project manager. I will be doing a bit of TA for users throughout the state, pulling and cleaning up data for federal reporting, but also helping with an ongoing project to move the database to a new platform. I'm ecstatic to get the job, as it seems to be much more in line with my computer science coursework than any of my previous jobs. However, I admit I lack a lot of perspective on this.

So I'm asking you all: have I found a job that can potentially pivot me into the CS career field, or am I getting really carried away here?

Any advice on how to continue toward the CS field from here would be appreciated. Either way, I finally feel like my career has turned where it has much more room to grow. So I'm dedicated to doing well in this role.

Hi all,

My team went live with our app about two weeks ago and it did not go so well. We have been working around the clock fixing issues and discovering other new issues along the way even though we never faced them in non prod. All the pressure/stress and non stop working has severely affected my mental health and overall lifestyle as I can barely enjoy even the smallest break in the day.

I’m thinking of taking medical leave but this is a critical time for this project and I’m conflicted as I don’t want to leave my teammates in the dark. Is this a wise choice?

Hypothetical:

Say you have strong internships, faang+ and decide you want to stay with your parents for a year after grad to sort of help em with some things.
In order to do so, you have to work at a mediocre tech company for 1 year. After the year you plan to move back in to big tech, AI and top swe roles.

Is this possible and will that 1 year significantly hurt my opportunities as a software engineer?

Currently an engineer at a large company dealing with poor/toxic leadership, constant manufactured urgency, and AI mandates that make no sense getting shoved down from above. I’m feeling really burnt out with the engineering culture and not optimistic about the direction things are heading at all.

An internal opportunity came up to lead AI strategy/GRC team. For context, I'm in a heavily regulated industry at a company with thousands of employees spread across multiple businesses. This would be non-engineering, more cross-functional, and more senior leadership exposure. It seems like a space that is growing fast as companies figure out their AI policies.

Has anyone made a similar transition? Is it realistic to return after a few years away or does stepping out at this level kind of close that door? And does a resume with both AI engineering and AI governance experience read to other companies as well-rounded or like a career regression? I’m trying not to let my decision be influenced by the constant AI-related fear mongering but its hard to avoid. I’m also making pretty good money right now and outside of the company I’m in I’m not sure what compensation is going to look like for this kind of role.

I recently started an internship at a decently known tech company (not like FAANG level but slightly below it), and they're really leaning into using AI to code at work, overtly so.

My work is pretty relaxed, and I don't have to do too much (there's events/activities/etc on top of regular workdays for interns), but I recently had a coffee chat with the manager of a team which I would be interested in working FT in, and he stated that almost all of the code that his team pushes out weekly (99%) is written using Claude Code. He told me that frankly, if people didn't use AI, they would probably be replaced (lower performance).

While I understand that using AI nowadays is really practical, what is the point of it being so heavily relied on in actual work environments if the interview portion requires me to figure out useless DSA problems? Also, if people genuinely use AI this much in the workforce, won't SWE's just be eventually reduced to having to learn good system design (which I'm sure people will just end up outsourcing to AI anyways) and be good prompters??

What's the purpose of me attending my university if all I'd do is just prompt AI all day? I'm genuinely just so lost

I'm a new grad that started back in July last year, got laid off in January, then got rehired a month ago at the same company. I start oncall work as part of the team's rotation in about two months, and I feel kind of nervous about it. I've done oncall before, but it was always low severity requests from adjacent teams on my last team - never a high-severity incident. So, I don't really have experience with handling those. This new team has about 1 Sev2 every 1-3 days usually, and I worry that it'll stress me out, that I won't be able to resolve the incidents on my own, that I'll have to fix something late at night or early in the morning, etc. I was wondering if anyone happened to have any advice for tackling oncall, as well as potential stress management tips for it if any.

https://prosperousamerica.org/sanders-pressures-trump-with-anti-outsourcing-legislation/

“Sanders aims to prevent companies like Carrier from moving to foreign countries by withholding federal contracts, tax breaks, loans or grants from corporations that move more than 50 jobs overseas.

His legislation, titled the Outsourcing Prevention Act, would also impose an outsourcing tax of either 35 percent of the company’s profits or an amount equal to its total savings from outsourcing the jobs.”

https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/sanders-bill-will-close-notorious-tax-shelter-loophole/

“The ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, Sanders announced the bill introduction during a news conference with groups releasing a report on how the tax shelter loophole has harmed many small businesses.

The bill also would remove tax code incentives for U.S. companies to ship American jobs and factories abroad – tax breaks which have contributed to the loss of millions of manufacturing jobs and the closure of some 60,000 American factories since 2000.  “That has also got to change,” Sanders said.

Under current law, U.S. corporations are allowed to defer or delay U.S. income taxes on overseas profits until the money is brought back into the United States.  U.S. corporations are also provided foreign tax credits to offset the amount of taxes paid to other countries. Under the legislation, corporations would pay U.S. taxes on their offshore profits as they are earned.  The legislation would take away the tax incentives for corporations to move jobs offshore or to shift profits offshore because the U.S. would tax their profits no matter where they are generated.”

This bill was in 2016

If I graduate with a CS degree, can I get into robotics, hardware or something similar in that scene in general if I sell myself right?

Or would I have to go for a masters in robotics engineering or CE/EE? Then I’d be able to get into it as a fresh grad?

Because the job market for SWE and related roles as a fresh grad is just so saturated and difficult that I want to plan getting into hardware/robotics/something similar but idk if CS is enough

I am in a 4 year degree program (Bachelor of Information Technology), that also involves a co-op option. I completed the co-op course to be eligible to apply co-op/internship jobs. My coursework has a mix of courses with some coding related courses in which they taught us some web dev, c++, java (fundamentals) and it also has networking, cybersecurity, operating system, database related course.

Because of AI, I shifted my focus a lot towards networking and cybersecurity side as the software dev jobs will be affected more (comparatively) by AI (if they are). However, I see a very few job in those fields, most jobs are Accounting or Software related.

I'm interested in tech/IT in general and love to learn. I wanted to apply for networking or sysadmin like role BUT when I check job posting for co-op. 7 or 8 out of 10 jobs are software development related. Some are related to machine learning, some are full stack devs. Some invovled C and Java. I want to do co-op jobs as it's easier to get the foot in the door as a student. I did the courses which had C++ (programming basics) and Data structure (Using Java) and I'm learning Javascript on my own now as my courses didn't have that.

I'm in 3rd year and I have to yet make a portfolio and projects but my question is how much do I have to learn and how many projects do I have to make before I start applying for co-op jobs. Som co-op jobs mention a lot of frameworks and tech stack that my school never teaches, so I have to dedicate extra time for that.

Do I have to grind leetcode for a co-op jobs or they are for full time roles?

Any suggestions will be appreciated, I consider myself a newbie. I have some experience working as a IT support/help desk but not experience working as a software dev. Any learning resources will be appreciated.

22m, remote

I currently work fully remote. My underlying motive for moving is that almost everyone I know has moved away from my current town and it's isolating here and there's nothing left for me. I also want to focus heavily on my career growth and long-term earning potential.

Is it better to move to a lower COL area, wait a bit, and look for roles in HCOL areas later? I'd inherently save more money, but I'd probably have a worse time socially, as a lot of tech professionals concentrate in bigger cities.

Or is it better to spend $500+ more a month to live in a tech hub just for the sole purpose of having a local network, getting more traction as a local candidate, and possibly making more friends?

There is no right answer, I know, I'm just curious what others think. Cheers.

I am currently about 2 years into my job as a software engineer, and am getting the opportunity to move to a more solution engineer role, I really enjoy it more then just heads down programming, working with different teams, working out solutions, building Design diagrams, C4 documents, running design reviews, flow charts, building out requirements, refinement, etc.

I am just not sure if I should take it.

Any advice?

I used to love this job, it’s my first professional tech job, and I would consistently work overtime and really believed in the vision of the product we were making.

Fast forward about 1.5 years and it’s just miserable now. The other devs are 99.9% vibe coders, sometimes putting more effort into making it easier to make the AI do the work than themselves doing it.

Working on this codebase is miserable it’s just AI junk I can’t even be bothered to try anymore. I’ve fully committed myself to lazily letting Claude code do it all for me and I really don’t even care anymore. I even stated this to my boss and he did not object, he clearly values speed over anything else.

I used to be so happy seeing a team’s message and talking to everyone but at this point it’s genuinely depressing and for whatever reason stressful if that’s not an overstatement, I feel like I’m just putting on a fake face.

Because of all this I feel my feelings are heavily impacting my work negatively and my boss is picking this up. I’m not as close anymore and my quality of work has dropped. Nothing that would be a cause for concern but definitely something that’s noticeable.

*the question*

It’s not the worst feeling to just float through my job and collect the paycheck each week but I can’t see the growth or mentorship I need I am quite literally a the beginning.

I want to get out and get a new job which I’m expecting to pay more but adding onto this I have a few issues.

1) I have basically no reasonable personal projects, I have recently started one at a decent scale but I would say it’s still in its starting stages.

2) in this market how do I know I can even find anything

3) my company is a start up and I am on a 2 year contract. We are very close to some very big deadlines so if I leave at this stage while I previously had a good relationship with my boss I’m worried all this will cause is a poor reference and a fractured connection.

Essentially what to do. I know a lot of what I said is essentially a rant for the context but if there’s a good route to take let me know.

I recently got a new senior SE job and used that verification feature in LinkedIn where you get a code at your company's email to get a badge.

After that, I am getting a bunch of messages from absolute strangers who are not in my net, so far all from India (I don't live in India or even Asia) essentially sending me their job application, complete with CV and cover letter, telling me to help them find a job where I live.

Mind you, I'm not even in a management position, I have no idea why these people think I can help them get a job.

Are things over there really so bad that people send messages to total strangers asking them to help obtain positions? It feels weird to get these messages, but unfortunately LinkedIn doesn't have a way to restrict messages from non-connections that doesn't impact recruiters either

All I see here is how there is no jobs, CS degree is a waste etc.. but it still shows tech as one of the top growing careers in the next few years.

I’m about 20% done with my CS degree and I’m not sure exactly what to believe.

Working unpaid full time

Couldn’t land anything Cs related after more than 1000 applications, have a decent resume, 1 swe internship, some research experience, a first author paper, an ml related project that went viral several times last year and earlier this year with 2k stars on GitHub. Had a 4 final round interviews at some well known companies but wasn’t able to get anything. Now I’m working at a finance/research firm full time, around 9/10 hours a day unpaid as an analyst. Basically I’m wondering, is this a good idea? I’m learning a lot but I would also like to earn some money you know. The work isn’t stressful but it’s a tiny company and idk if there’s any hope of being paid in the future. I don’t think it’s sustainable long term for me but I guess I have no other options. Using a throw away account and will probably delete this in a few days.

TLDR: Couldn’t land anything as a new grad CS major so now pivoted to larping finance and working unpaid full time.

I'm in the internship hiring pipeline for Company A that I'd prefer to work at. I know people say you can mention competing offers to expedite the hiring process, but would that still work for an internship that's ongoing? I start today at Company B but I'm still in the hiring process for A, and would quit my current one if I'm offered. And would it reflect poorly on me if I told Company A about my situation to try and expedite my process since I'm basically telling them I'll jump ship from another company a few weeks in?

I'm already at a good company making a lot of money, but I get reached out to by the big hedge funds on LinkedIn, and I'm trying to evaluate if its worth my time to prep for them. Comp-wise I'd imagine making 100-200k more which isnt life-changing

Has anyone made the swtich with decent YOE (5-6)? is it worth it?