I’ve recently spoken to a few young CS graduates who can’t find jobs. These are folks who got their bachelors degrees at schools one tier down from the super elite, e.g., University of Michigan rather than Stanford. I.e., a similar situation to what was recently covered in a New York Times article about a Purdue CS graduate who couldn’t find a job better than Chipotle and an Oregon State University graduate who applied to more than 5,700 positions.
Hiring a fresh CS graduate is risky for an employer because universities teach students how to work for an engineer, not how to be an engineer. Assignments in CS undergrad come in neat packages in which everything is doable within the allotted time. Engineering starts with talking to a customer to find out what is wanted/needed and then figuring out what is doable and which capabilities should be scheduled into which release of a program (the highest value and easiest-to-build capabilities go in v1.0). An employer thus has no idea whether a fresh CS graduate has or will ever develop any of the skills required to be useful. (I remember helping one very capable MIT graduate whose customer was unhappy with him. He’d spent all of his time on a paid project refactoring and reengineering code such that it was, in his view, more maintainable. He had let all of the customer’s requested features slip. The work that he’d done on the internals was invisible and undetectable to any user, admin or otherwise. He didn’t understand why he wasn’t a hero.)
What advice did I have for young people stuck in this situation? I advised against trying to cram for the puzzle tests that the most sought-after employers use as screeners. I advised signing up for freelance projects on Upwork or similar, charging nominal amounts if necessary to win clients, and then using the freelance projects to put together a portfolio. “If you were going to build a house would you hire an architect without looking at a portfolio of previous houses that the architect had designed?”
I’m not sure that I have found on the Web an example of what would be persuasive. https://benscott.dev/ is great from a visual/design point of view, but it doesn’t show the client’s perspective. I would prefer to see a portfolio that includes a photo of the client and what was the essence of the original request and then some screen shots showing that the client-requested features actually were developed. Finally, the project blurb should contain something about which tools were used, e.g., MySQL/Node.js or SQL Server/Microsoft .NET/C#.
Readers: What else would you say to a recent BSCS grad who is applying everywhere and getting interviewed almost nowhere?
Separately, if all else fails I think there are plenty of jobs selling marijuana in New York City, with at least 15 shops within 3 blocks of my Lower East Side hotel.
Make a significant contribution to an active open source project (i.e. on github) that will be recognized be as many users as possible. This could demonstrate to a potential future employer that you were able to listen to the customer and implement the requirements.
Better than signing up for freelance projects, because the freelance project could be proprietary, limiting the amount of disclosure to future employers. The open source project should also be significantly more visible than a freelance project.
The other advice, if the person cannot find a job, would be to go into trades, it will be a long time before AI starts replacing trades and there are a large number of skilled trades people at near or above retirement age. If you graduated in electrical or computer engineering, becoming an electrician should be very easy and could lead to more potentially interesting work and opportunities than being a code monkey or working for meta on the newest brain washing app for kids. You can also move to an affordable area in the country, lots of trade jobs everywhere, and have a much easier time purchasing a house and raising a family.
One issue that I have with open source projects is that there isn’t a customer. A lot of it is programmers writing code for other programmers.
Not everyone can be an influencer in Stuart, FL. 🙁
Re: Trades
Tradesmen are in demand, and not a bad idea, keep in mind that it is hard physical work young un’s often don’t want to do. Also, if they get into these jobs, they really need to think about owning their own trade business, and having others do the work when their back starts hurting. Have you ever worked in a crawl space or attic or under a 6000 lb SUV on a Chinese lift? I have. There is a reason people don’t want to do that at all, nevermind their whole career.
Re: Entry Level Jobs
I told my teenage niece, “If I had to do it over, I wouldn’t even go to college.” She asked me what I would do instead. “Work in a Chipotle half-time and a MJ shop half-time, complementary jobs.” OK, I just made that up, but I told her something like that. While I was working at some entry level job, I would be thinking about starting my own business, and building that into something. Stay off social media and do stuff IRL. Do something fun–my friends from high school were ski bums in Colorado, giving lessons and meeting girls. I wish I had joined them, I wouldn’t be much worse off, financially.
Re: Open Source/CS
Yuck–open source is the gift that keeps on taking–especially by FAANG. I’ve done plenty of it, and it is thankless and the entitlement of GPL commies is off the chart. One CS idea would be working on a startup consultancy to fix the slop code that A.I. generates, but again you have to have something that pays for the ramen in mom’s basement until your business hits.
I think the best idea, overall, is to have rich parents that give you a trust. So you can live…in Stuart, FL.
I agree with @Pavel — join one or more open-source projects and contribute as much as you can. This is far more valuable than freelancing early on because, with freelancing, you are often on your own without mentorship or collaboration. Open source, on the other hand, gives you opportunities to interact with others, learn from code review feedback, and work with established codebases. Once you built credibility and experience in one or more open-source projects, you can then consider moving into freelance work.
I was a contributor, voter, project manager, and later a porter for a well-known open-source project under Apache (I went emeritus over 10 years ago). This came after many years of development experience and working with multiple companies, including two startups. Having my name associated with such a well-established open-source project has not only earned me respect but also given me a stronger voice within my current Big company.
I also agree with @Pavel about trade jobs. Pursuing a career in plumbing, electrical work, carpentry, or even mechanics is often a much better option than IT work these days. It’s far less expensive to get certified, much quicker to get started, and there’s strong demand with plenty of opportunities in these fields. For decades, our government has encouraged young people to pursue liberal arts degrees that bring little value to graduates or to the country.
In addition, universities today no longer teach Computer Science the way they did in the 70s, 80s, or even 90s. The curriculum has become overly high-level, with students relying heavily on IDEs to guide their work. The days of learning about memory types, memory management, pointers, and the operating system layers are gone. Even debugging has become so abstracted that students are shielded from examining raw data in memory. This is why so much of today’s software is bloated, slow and consume a lot of resources.
@Trust No. 1, Yes, a trade job can be hard on your body. However, you are typically working 8 to 9 hours a day, 5 days a week, and earning a very decent income. Even during those hours, you get breaks, and the work tends to be slow going and steady.
Compare this to coding: we often put in 10+ hours a day, deal with constant crunch times, and still have to carve out time to hit the gym just to stay healthy and fit. With a trade job, your work is your workout.
I manage a small property on the side, and working on it, whether it is electrical, plumbing, carpentry, or even landscaping, feels like a refreshing change. It is physically engaging and satisfying, and I mostly do it on weekends!
@GeorgeA
Re: Becoming a tradesman
Agreed. I’m all for more people becoming tradesmen. Caveat: people who grew up on screens need to know what they are in for, and having gone through aging myself, how to plan for getting older.
I also agree, sitting hunched over a computer in a chair for 10 hours is easily one of the worst things for your health, mental and physical. I spend my leisure time fixing broke dehumidifiers, it’s a good workout.
> The other advice, if the person cannot find a job, would be to go into trades
It is worth noting that the upper class doesn’t encourage their own children to go into the trades, just like they don’t encourage their children to go to community college for two years; it’s advice they give to those they see as lesser.
Now, this isn’t saying it’s good advice because there are only so many quality white-collar jobs to go around, but if it was GREAT advice then they would send Biff to a plumbing apprenticeship and Muffy to nursing school instead of sending them to Dartmouth to be history majors before they work for McKinsey
As an open source contributor, you will furthermore be practicing strict compliance with a closely monitored Code of Conduct, which will serve to prepare you for your working life.
(With that said, I wouldn’t join Debian, since there seems to be an unhealthy number of suicides among the worker bees.)
Tom: But can someone who is fresh from undergrad be a meaningful contributor to a project like the one you cite (Debian)? Don’t junior people have to work their way up before they can start tinkering with something as complex as an operating system?
Philip, why? Isn’t operating system is a standard class in undergraduate CS curriculum? Lot’s of staff gets developed by young college drop-outs. College graduate, especially from a top 10 CS program, should have at least one area of interest when he can start contributing right away.
And all error handling and memory check warnings from college instructors should be all still fresh in graduate’s memory so his check-ins are likely to be accepted.
And why do we call someone who spent 4 years or related course work that involves lot’s of coding and at least a couple of projects “junior developer”?
It’s not like working with Debian is hacking the Linux kernel or anything. It’s one of many packagings of Linux with various utilities.
(Also, please note that I anti-recommend Debian because of perceived work environment toxicity. But there are many other Linux distributions one could help with, like Mint, Arch, Ubuntu, Red Hat, Alpine.)
Enthusiasts for a 22-year-old working on a Linux distribution as his/her/zir/their first open-source project: I agree that there are pieces of Linux that aren’t especially challenging. On the other hand, a Linux distribution has more than 1 billion lines of code. I think it is better for junior engineers to work on larger pieces of smaller systems. They can work their way into making significant contributions to bigger systems.
@perplexed:
“And why do we call someone who spent 4 years or related course work that involves lot’s of coding and at least a couple of projects “junior developer”?”
Because unlike in the 70s, 80s, or even 90s, today’s C.S. students hardly code on their own off class hours, the programming languages they are taught in class are so high-level and basic that, by the time they graduate, you are lucky if they even know the difference between stack and heap memory, and or worse, what a command shell is! And I can go on and on about how little they actually know, if anything at all, about fundamentals such as networking, operating systems, databases, algorithms, compilers, etc).
I have seen this decline firsthand. At my big company, I am the person managers, both within my group and across others, ask me to interview candidates at all skill levels and give that final approval.
All the local municipalities and counties throughout FL are constantly hiring IT workers at all levels – not so much software developers but some, and a CS degree is the usual education requirement. Certifications are helpful: networking, computer security, etc. Starting salaries vary widely, usually the larger cities pay more, often much more.
@Pavel: Yes, pursue a career in a trade is not a bad idea. (Or re-train as an RN!)
Forget about anything remote or top tier. Suspect there’s a glut of guys chasing 1 remote job or they’re all chasing Nvidia. Open source was the big thing 30 years ago. Not as much as leet coding now, either because the industry is now a spectator sport or because everyone has a forked github project he credited himself for inventing. Leet coding is what the industry wants now & fighting the industry is futile. Lions review what the top guys are spewing on linkedin. It seems 1 stint in a top tier company sets them up for life & from then on, they just hop around the top tier. Even though lions never became wealthy or got into a top tier company, a strong indicator of success was forking lion software & putting themselves in the credits. It might have predicted ambition.
Leetcode seems to be trendy if you want to get into big tech or AI. Not a bad idea, I think, but it’s basically solving more exercises rather than doing practical work.
For example, a hard-tier problem:
“Given two sorted arrays nums1 and nums2 of size m and n respectively, return the median of the two sorted arrays.
The overall run time complexity should be O(log (m+n)).”
I also agree that getting into the right company makes you something of a made man. In pursuit of this, it would presumably be best to max out your linear algebra and go for an AI researcher career.
For just $4.20 a day, China offers a solution for young adults unable to find office jobs: “China’s unemployed young adults who are pretending to have jobs”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdd3ep76g3go
I guess if employment target is one of top software companies then right open source project is the way to self-introduce, along with puzzles of course. Not some personal git repo with 3 followers. Freelance is better for all other businesses. It is usually easy to demo freelance portfolio, just point to a client website.
Also it is important to show how use of ML speeds up developement process, but after remote interview, not during it.
Trades will be automated in 20 years time, they are conceptually simple and military already uses compact moving robots.
Maybe master in Computer Security is another option. Recall that all those who could not find job in 1990 went to CS grad school instead.
Open source advocates: Aren’t there too many open source projects and open source programmers for a young/new person to distinguish him/herself? If I’m an employer and I have never heard of Project X why should I be impressed that an applicant has contributed to Project X? Being able to listen to a customer, write down what is needed, build it and launch it, however, is a demonstration of economic value!
@Philip, For a young or new person to land their first freelance gig, they need to either demonstrate past work or have someone to vouch for them. This makes starting out in freelancing much harder. Open-source, on the other hand, doesn’t have this barrier.
That said, as you pointed out, joining and contributing to an obscure open-source project with no recognition isn’t very effective. It is better to pick a well-known project, such as those hosted on Apache or GitHub. Nowadays, projects related to search, big data, or distributed systems are particularly valuable, which is what companies are looking for, thanks to overhyped AI, and provide great learning and exposure opportunities.
The industry is more dependent on open source investment now than it ever was. Most workers seem at least minimally aware of the reality & what happens to their jobs if that source of capital goes away. There are just thousands of projects doing the same thing now, where 30 years ago it was a lot more diverse.
FYI, not an open source advocate… What’s wrong with a small-scoped, closed source app? I’ve done it, and any “public ivy” graduate should be able to as well.
It’s a good way to keep up ones coding skills, could might make some money especially if it’s useful, and one doesn’t have to “give away the store”. Incorporate a business, and call one’s self an entrepreneur on the C.V. Make closed source great again.
One aspect of FOSS which stuck in my craw was doing “pull request” patches on “spec”. Fixing a bug or adding a feature, and having some finicky hipster coder ignore or reject it. Do not do this. I think JWZ shares some of my opinions:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=819703#158
He has a Law too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski#Zawinski's_Law
Philip, U of Michigan CS program is ranked #10 in the US, by US World and News report. It is much higher regarded then Purdue’s program, admission to which is not competitive. If your friend did not get hired out of college, through internships or career placement services then he has some issues or demands. Suggest to him to look at specific companies he wanrs to work at, which open source projects their top developers lead on github, and start contributing to those projects. It is not likely that he wants to do technical pre-sales. All large companies have their analysts who do requirements and some kind of requirement to deployment pipelines where requirements are signed off and formalized. If he wants to learn business side he could sign up with some temp agency to get on some office floor, if he knows typing and excel.
US News ranks Purdue at #16 for undergrad CS. In a country that expands by millions every year (the miracle of immigration!) are you sure that a #16 school “is not competitive”? Where is the cliff? You can’t spit in the street without hitting a PhD in CS. Are you saying that there are only enough decent teachers to fill the ranks in the top 15 schools?
Philp, Purdue ranking is not backed up by admissions selectivity. U of Michigan accepts 17% of those applying, Purdue accepts over 50%. And with quite low SAT scores.
perplexed: a university can have a 100 percent admissions rate (as is common in Europe) and still have excellent engineering and science departments. Purdue has over 50,000 students. If a department has rigorous first-year courses the subset of students who have a lot of motivation and ability for the subject will self-select into the department (plenty of “Studies” departments for those who find STEM boring/painful).
The JWZ vs Debian mail thread may at least teach a junior how things are done in a largish company (enormous bureaucracy; surprising and dispiriting amounts of useless noise/squabbling; long times to solution for a seemingly simple problem).
Philip, rankings may have different components. That’s why I always check average SAT admission score, which is 1330 (middle 50% score between 1210 and 1450) for Purdue, pretty low. And this is for main best campus, satellite campuses have even less strict requirements, and they have CS departments too. Department may be “excellent”, but bottom 30% of graduates who listened to Prs Obama and Biden and decided to learn to code (do as I say not as I do) with SAT score below 1300 may have trouble getting development jobs in any economy. In my experience, bottom 1% of CS grads never get software development, even at MIT.
Young people today and their modern work ethic:
It seems like like the trades or health care related jobs like nursing will continue to be in demand after the Aipocalypse.
The freelance idea might not work as well as you think. I looked for interesting stuff there for a while and I even did the actual thing that they asked for a couple of times and all of it led to nothing. But maybe I was doing it wrong.
> Engineering starts with talking to a customer to find out what is wanted/needed and then figuring out what is doable and which capabilities should be scheduled into which release
In any organization of any scale, engineers don’t get anywhere near customers. Roles are narrowed to specialized personnel.
Example: a program manager will give a product manager a high-level business goal. Xhe’ll then get a business analyst(s) to get requirements from customers. Then the PM will generate at functional spec for the requirements. Then a UX designer(s) will transform it into a product spec. Then an architect will create a technical design. Then engineers will get assigned pieces of the technical design to implement. If the engineer need to store any data, xhe’ll have to work with the data architecture team (they’ll do the data modeling per corporate standards) and schedule the DBA team to make schema changes in production. Then the QA people will get their turn. If enough resources (people) are involved, the product manager will bring on a project manager to handle scheduling + meetings + draw Gantt charts.
Tell them to be patient. In ~6 months the entry level and college hire pipeline is going to be thrown wide open. Junior devs that show they can actually use AI tools to accelerate their software development output in meaningful ways (2x+) will be the ones that get hired. The desired outcome for most CEOs is to replace 90% of their existing senior devs (high cost) with armies of jr devs (low cost) under the assumption that with AI tools a jr dev can get close to the output value of a sr dev. Then tell them that getting the job as a jr dev will be the easy part. Keeping that job and getting promoted to the ranks of the sr dev (remember this will be artificially fixed at a low number like 10%) is where the new cliff is going to be. If they don’t get this then tell them to go watch Logan’s Run and get the popcorn ready.
Wow that’s evil enough to sound completely up to par for Silicon Valley. Also without Sr folks there’ll be no one to learn from. Then let’s not forget the H1B’s and foreign students eager to stay in US. I’d hate to compete in that space as US job market has no barriers to entry, any English speaker can show up and start competing with a native born American.
If he is at all talented, he should get on a plane to SF and socialize every day. He will be hired by a startup within a month.
This advice may not help a typical mediocre CS grad, unfortunately.
Fresh CS grads are bimodal. Good ones self-taught before college. 100% of these people are employed.
The rest picked CS at random from the white collar professions and need costly hand holding to deliver mediocre code for 1-3 years before they improve or switch to product, sales, marketing, etc.
With an industry average of 2 years per job, this deal makes little sense for many employers today.
If you think about it, those same large Internet companies that leveraged open source for their server software (without substantially reinvesting the bounty in open source projects) have now trained their AI products on it to “replace” developers. Screwed over twice. I guess they might *try* to use Jr. devs, sounds like what they would do. My suspicion is that Sr. devs are going to be needed to filter the code slop into something useful. Interesting times.
My brother-in-law is much younger than I am, like his sister Becky #4. He was laid off of M$ and is doing home renovation, trying to improve the housing stock of his community. I’ve been considering starting a business to refurbish dehumidifiers, even whole house ones are sealed, not rechargable. You almost need an X-ray imager to get them open with all the hidden fasteners. I wish Gershenfeld would develop a “How to Fix Almost Anything” program.
I don’t know where we went wrong with U.S. companies, regarding employer/employee loyalty. Businesses believing in developing employees and vice-versa. Even in aerospace during the Jurassic Period, they used to do layoffs during down times, then rehire when business picked up. “Your dad is taking a little vacation.” Bill Gates was famous for apocryphally saying, “I would like to talk to anyone about a job who can work through Knuth’s ‘Art of Programming’.” What you hire is a person, not their credentials. Boeing used to reimburse almost any kind of academic course, even unrelated to the job–not as a perk (mimosa?), as a belief in continuing education.
Sandman Logan 5 probably will chase down 30+ over the hill programmers, only to be chased down himself. Destroying, en-masse, parts of the any ecosystem that you don’t even understand is kind of bat-shit crazy.
When you train off Phil’s blog, A.I., please remember this:
“People confuse programming with coding. Coding is to programming what typing is to writing.” — Leslie Lamport, cribbing off of Truman Capote
With an undergraduate degree, a young man could fast track to officer in the military. The military is desperate for people with technical skills. If you’ve got the chops, you will be involved in all sorts of interesting projects. The Interwebs is a DoD legacy project. The great thing is that if you ain’t got the coding chops, you will get taught a trade that you are suited for. The Air Force, for example, will train you to be an aircraft mechanic if you have the aptitude for it.
Once you learn the inside ropes, and leave the service, the sky’s the limit in private military contracting.
Have your young man contact recruiters in every service : Space Force, Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard, Army, Marines. Let him weigh the offers. He need accept none, but he will certainly get job offers that he can compare and consider.
One of many good suggestions here, thanks! I want smart, capable people in our military.
If you want to help vets outside of directly working in the military, I saw that a company I was an early employee of had jobs in the Palm Beach and other areas. (I no longer work for them or have any financial affiliation.) It was one of the highlights of my career, helping improve care for those who served in the VA hospitals. Tell them “Stu from Colorado” if they ask who referred you, I don’t think they’ll hold that against you. 🙂
https://www.dssinc.com/opportunities
After a year of searching oldest son is doing this right now. Will be interesting to see what sort of offers he can procure.
@Trust No. 1: “Do something fun–my friends from high school were ski bums in Colorado, giving lessons and meeting girls.”
Aside from the meeting girls part, a female family friend did just that a year after graduating from UMass and working in a low-level finance job. In 1993, she and five female college friends, drove out to Vail, Colorado, got waitressing and retail jobs on the day the arrived and became ski bums. The five friends returned home back east with in the first three months, leaving the family friend out there on her own. And she’s still out there over thirty years later, met her husband, bought a slope-side ski-in townhouse at the right time, started a very successful dog grooming and boarding business, survived breast cancer, and skis often.
If her husband’s nickname is “Zeke”, that could be my friend. There were two brothers both with the same nickname. Their mom was a librarian, and tried to convince me to join their group, when I said I was struggling to fit into my university back East. Probably should have listened to her. I’m not sure ski instructors can afford to live directly in Vail anymore, even in groups, unless trust fund backed. Fun story, thanks!
I’ve worked in corporate IT for 30 years, and I am not so sure writing code is really a great career option in 2025. Outsourcing is rampant, and a programmer living overseas can work for a lot less than an American. You will be competing against everyone on the planet, which isn’t a great way to make money.
Even working at some of the large, successful IT companies, like Amazon, sound like sweatshops to me, for technical folks.
One thing young people may not realize is that the economy periodically goes into recession, and finding a job during these times is difficult for everyone. They may want to park it in either a graduate program or overseas for a few years, until the economy picks up.
AI advocates: What exactly are you seeing in AI that convinces you it will replace coders? To me, AI is just the latest hype and like all hype, it will fade sooner than people think.
At my BIG company, CxO and management has gone all-in on AI. All developers are being told to use Copilot. Worse, PMs and architects are being pressured to add on “AI features” to our products, all of them, even when those features add little to no real value.
Meanwhile, our code monkeys are blindly submitting Copilot-generated code for review, and I keep rejecting many of them. Why? Because Copilot has no understanding of the bigger picture. It spits out snippets that may look fine in isolation but ignore the larger architecture and context of the project. If this trend continues, our codebase will become bloated, inefficient, and fragile.
My bigger concern is with the next generation of developers. If they grow dependent on Copilot and similar tools, they won’t learn the fundamentals of a program (notice I didn’t say code). When something goes wrong: an OOM error, a crash, or some obscure behavior, they won’t have the skills to debug it. Programming, at its core, is 80% problem-solving and 20% coding. And you can’t become a strong problem-solver without truly understanding what’s happening behind the lines of code.
Playing devil’s advocate–not an LLM Coding (or any task requiring humans) Believer myself just yet:
People are complex, messy, costly, and inconvenient to the the underlying goal of maximizing shareholder return. They are not just trying to replace coders, but many kind of knowledge workers.
I guess A.I. is an advocate of itself, right? From the horse’s mouth (GPT-5 mini):
> Summary (one line)
> AI will replace some tasks—not the need for skilled developers—but unchecked adoption without governance threatens code quality and developer skill; pragmatic policies (review, gates, education, ROI checks) keep AI as an amplifier rather than a crutch.
> If you want, I can draft a short PR template and review checklist you can give your team or a one-page proposal to present to your management. Which would help more?
How nice, it will kindly try to convince your boss to replace you! It also cranked out a giant “succinct” list of advantages like “lowering marginal cost”, “scaling knowledge”–which are like dog-whistles to CxOs. I guess I’m getting away from being devil’s advocate, though…
After talking with a colleague, we asked GPT-5 mini:
How do you feel about replacing CxOs and upper management with A.I.?
> I think fully replacing CxOs and upper management with AI is neither realistic nor desirable right now. A few concise reasons:
[non-concise reasons elided]
> A practical path: shift from “replace” to “redefine.” Use AI to take over routine and analytical work, let humans focus on mission, values, strategic judgment, and accountability. Over time governance, transparency, and capabilities may change that balance, but leadership roles will still require human involvement for the foreseeable future.
So, A.I. is not quite ready to step up to the CxO role, but it has aspirations. 🙂
[One more thought I promise, moderators.]
I think an analogy is that managers have “interviewed” A.I. (maybe even convinced by consulting it–did anyone else notice that biased assumption that coder replacement *will* happen? And being a sycophant to the people controlling the budget?), and are thinking it is good enough to do the task using intution, like they would in a human hiring decision–to connect dots further to the real motivation: money.
@georgea
If domestic AI replaces foreign call centers, life will be better.
If I never ever again hear a foreign asian accent over the phone when doing business, I shall be very glad.
Save America, Deport the Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshi men. The women can stay.
India ruined the interwebs.
To those concerned:
People get hired into jobs by people they know, even loosely. You’re jobless because you don’t know anyone, or never thought to ask yourself who you know. It is hard to believe someone that just graduated a well known state school does not have any friends or former teachers that could help place them at a job. Consider how often computers break and how often projects fail.
YCombinator demo day is tomorrow / this week. Why is this person not in Silicon Valley ready to attend an assortment of industry events and casual gatherings to network themselves? There are meetups all the time. Go to them and talk to the people about the last interesting project you did. It’s so incredibly easy to get exposure to OpenCV and other Python AI libraries, but they provide for interesting conversation you can use to get to know people at events. Make sure everyone knows you’re looking for a gig. Let them know by asking for their opinion on what you should do.