Not Getting a Job Should Radicalize You

CS Majors have had a track record over the past 10 years of golden handcuffs, and now we’re getting the same steel ones that most other professions get. The reality is, is that this market probably will never return to the one that many of us were promised, and we’ll be joining the ranks of most other professions most likely. Do not be fooled, companies like google, Meta, Oracle, have purposely created the toxic and overly competitive environment that we all navigate. They prey on children of immigrants like myself whose parents mean well, but in many cases, ultimately shove their children down the rabbit hole of a capitalistic vision of success. I go to a well ranked program, and watching many of my peers switch to data science concentrations or adding statistics majors simply because it’s the waive right now is evidence enough that they most likely are not into computer science for the right reasons. They WANT you to beg, fight, kick and scratch your fellow man so that they can drive down our wages through increasing their leverage. Ultimately, google doesn’t give a shit about any single employee, even if they pay them well.