Computer Science Students Are Struggling to Get Jobs, Prof. Hany Farid Tells Business Insider

Computer science went from a future-proof career to an industry in upheaval in a shockingly small amount of time.

 

“For people like your son, by the way, who four years ago were promised, go study computer science, it’s going to be a great career. It is future-proof — that changed in four years,” UC Berkeley professor Hany Farid said during a recent episode of Nova's “Particles of Thought” podcast. “That is astonishing.”

 

It’s too easy to just blame AI, though, Farid said.

 

“Something is happening in the industry,” he said. “I think it’s a confluence of many things. I think AI is part of it. I think there’s a thinning of the ranks that’s happening, that’s part of it, but something is brewing...”