Gates: "Where are the computer science students" 4145

Bill Gates is spewing CORPORATE PROPAGANDA.

There is NO shortage of CS majors. If there is a reduction in the numbers, it is precisely because students have finally caught onto the fact that there are no jobs. He is trying to imbue the public with the impression that we need to import workers, or that more people in this country need to study CS so that they can fight amongst themselves and accept minimum wage salaries (even less if you count the overtime, professionals in US are 100% exempt, code monkeys included!)

My husband graduated with the best possible GPA in CS and math, and it took him 8 months to find a job (any job remotely related to CS). He got interviews at all of 2 companies after being a full-time job searcher. Granted, he would have found a job easily in this area at the time had he been eligible for a top secret clearance, but that was not the case.

He was hired at an awful company that made a special lower-pay salary for him and made him their first 'junior software engineer', I suppose to justify the lower salary. The company has already shipped off its hardware business to Singapore, and has been contracting increasing numbers of projects to India. He became a code slave with mandatory overtime, and there was no down or slow time because they purposely maintained so many projects and deadlines that no human could finish all of them, ever. It appeared to be a pretty stupid policy, because they have a turnover rate more typical of a fast food establishment. It's probably purposeful so they can just move the whole joint to India. To boot, they gave him old slow computers to work with, and people fought over parts leftover from a computer when some senior guy left.

Anyway, I went recruiting at a local university for my present govt employer, and 95% of the resumes we received were from CS majors. They were desperate. We were there looking mostly for mechanical engineers and had to start turning CS people away.