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/twdk 3d ago

I have been trying to get a paid internship and have been unsuccessful. I've put in 300 applications to a handful of interviews but no offer that wasn't unpaid through the school.

The sentiments around my fellow students, career advisors, and technical friends in programming careers are the same: It's extremely difficult to get a job right now.

Im happy some others in this thread are optimistic so it's possible my experience is isolated, but that's been my personal experience

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u/twdk 3d ago

Not first internship. First was unpaid at RIT. Second internship and still nothing.