I teach Software Engineering, working mostly with first-year students but also coaching the senior capstone project. This year was the first time that not all of my seniors had a job before they graduated. One got hired just two weeks ago. Unsurprisingly, incoming numbers are way down. It’s likely that at least some of those were attracted to the money aspect, but it’s still a disturbing trend after years of steady growth in numbers.
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To be honest, some people that studied CS alongside me had no place in front of an IDE… Some barely had the thought process necessary to look things up critically and not just trusting the first result every time.
I also have a friend that teaches CS and he’s been saying that the quality of students is terrible nowadays. And he’s not old, he’s under 30.
Relevant Doctorow post: The enshittification of tech jobs (27 Apr 2025)
