‘Only One Company Called Me': CS Graduate Struggles to Find Work Due To AI
Once considered students with the best career path and most secure future, computer science graduates are enduring high unemployment in India and across the globe, with the rising number of artificial intelligence tools affecting their utility and job prospects. An Indian-American tech graduate has highlighted the job struggles of computer science students in the age of AI.
Having grown up in California, Manasi Mishra was convinced that her computer science major at college would be the surest means to land a tech job and earn a six-figure salary in the USA. Mishra even learnt coding and built her website when she was still in elementary school. The tables, however, turned on her drastically after the number of AI tools surfaced in the market.
'The rhetoric was, if you just learned to code, work hard and get a computer science degree, you can get six figures for your starting salary," Mishra said in a viral TikTok video, as quoted by The New York Times. But even graduating from Purdue University in May didn't guarantee her a proper job, as AI continues to replace computer science experts at multiple tech companies.
'The only company that called me for an interview was Chipotle," stressed Mishra, who had to decline the Chipotle gig after the company offered her 10 hours of work a week, knowing she would not have made enough from it to make ends meet.
For much of the past two decades, a computer science degree was expected to guarantee graduates a job in the global tech scene. Even tech giants and billionaires encouraged students to pursue a computer science degree and learn coding, promising that it would earn them higher salaries, big bonuses and great job security.
It is understood that computer science majors in the US soared and nearly doubled between 2014 and 2024, when the job scene in tech was thriving. However, with AI tools capable of generating code, entry-level coders are now finding it increasingly difficult to land a job in the country.
Among degree holders in the US, computer science (6.1 per cent) and engineering (7.5 per cent) graduates face some of the highest unemployment rates, as AI curtails their wings.
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