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Re:Almost 200k Job Cuts in Tech Pushes New Grads to Wall Street by jgalentine007 on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @01:03PM (#36047269)
If I remember correctly, there were 600 CS freshmen in 2000 at Virginia Tech, only ~60 of us were left by graduation, I think largely because of people evaluating their prospects after the crash (and computer science is hard).
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Re:Almost 200k Job Cuts in Tech Pushes New Grads to Wall Street by grepfru_it on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @07:35PM (#36052175)
That’s some bullshit. I applied for CS at tech and they butchered my admission and put me in general engineering. When I called to correct this obvious mistake they said the CS program was full.

I blamed it on Virginia tech’s football team making it to championships that year (1999). Oh well, still got to work with famous professors and got a very good head start on my career through my Alma mater

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Re:Almost 200k Job Cuts in Tech Pushes New Grads to Wall Street by jgalentine007 on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @09:05AM (#36057453)
I was totally surprised how many people I had met in those first classes, who had no programming experience whatsoever and were surprised by the amount of math in the curriculum - they were for sure chasing a trend.

I think my class was the last to graduate from arts/sciences, the CS dept was moved into the engineering college.

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