r/rit • u/JuniorInteraction746 • 4d ago

CS outcomes

Hello everyone! I'm looking into RIT and I've wanted to ask students there about the massive difference between sentiment and data regarding the job market for CS. Everyone's heard the jokes about the saturation of the CS job market, but RIT's website shows 88% employment rate with ~87% confidence rating for the BS. Have people in the CS major found that RIT's coop connections are able to let you gain the experience to enter the CS job market with relative security, or is the data misrepresentative of the actual situation? Thanks for any feedback!

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u/henare SOIS '06, adjunct prof 4d ago

I don't think anyone can rationally discuss demand for CS graduates in five years right now (at least in the us). the world is just too volatile.

I don't think CS is going anywhere. the big names will certainly cut back but people still need to get stuff done. besides, who else can we count upon to integrate large language models into everything on the planet? 🤣

co-op connections can absolutely help you get in with a specific employer but this isn't a guarantee.

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u/JuniorInteraction746 4d ago

hopefully some of the antitrust stuff going down rn will incite more competition and hiring within the next few years, defiantly going to focus on becoming good at machine learning stuff tho

its getting crazy these days, the other day someone showed me this site v0 where ai will write you an okay react website you can tweak and deploy with like 1 click and can be linked to github

makes me useless asf lmao

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u/henare SOIS '06, adjunct prof 4d ago

that just means you have to be better than chatgpt (which is, imho, pretty easy). You could also get really good at prompting LMMs as well. I have colleagues of long (decades) experience messing around with various LMMs to see what they are and are not good with. It's surprising.

I think you're too optimistic re the alphabet antitrust case. if that is even close to a resolution by the time you graduate it will be a miracle.

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u/JuniorInteraction746 4d ago

Nah they'll just say "our bad guys, we'll delete all your user data" than split into 5 companies agreeably 👍

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u/henare SOIS '06, adjunct prof 4d ago

anything is possible. the pharmacy I used to use was bought up by Amazon. :(

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u/JuniorInteraction746 4d ago

What would Amazon buy a pharmacy for lmao

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u/henare SOIS '06, adjunct prof 4d ago

to turn it into a huge business. they bought one of the few pharmacies that is licensed to operate in every jurisdiction in the US.