There are more CS students than laptops. Good luck everyone.
Quick reality check for everyone saying “just major in CS”.
Rough numbers in the U.S. pipeline:
~4.3 million people working in IT/SWE
~1.8 million students currently studying CS / EE / math / related majors
~164k new grads entering the market every year
Meanwhile the number of actual laptops in use isn’t nearly as big as people think, especially once you remove corporate devices and shared machines.
So we’ve basically built a system where millions of students are training for jobs that depend on a limited number of actual computing devices and companies needing software for them.
Yet universities keep expanding CS departments like it's an infinite-demand field.
Every freshman thinks they’ll be:
- a FAANG engineer
- an AI researcher
- a startup founder
But the math doesn’t magically change.
If there are more CS and related majors than the devices those jobs depend on, how exactly is everyone supposed to find work?💀
At this point the real entry-level tech stack is:
• LeetCode
• 400 job applications
• Ghosted by recruiters
• Repeat