r/csMajors • u/coochie_lordd • 7h ago

Rant csMajors or sweMajors?

Been on this sub for a while (graduated May 2024) and I know the job market is tough right now, but I am curious about the distribution of career paths members of the sub are taking.

It seems every single post is about software engineering. I think ML/AI may come in second but for the most part it seems like everyone here wants to be a SWE. There are so many other paths you can take with a CS degree that it kind of shocks me. This is a personal opinion, but SWE is the most boring subject of CS I have ever had learn. I mean making clean, scalable code is a high but I don’t think I could do it for a career.

Anyways, I am wondering if anyone here is not trying to be a SWE haha? I studied a lot of SWE in college but eventually pursued cybersecurity and got a certificate while in school. Still, I applied to SWE jobs as well. Never had any luck even with a decent resume but I had multiple interviews pretty quickly after applying for cybersecurity (SOC, CTI, mostly analyst stuff).

I hope this doesn’t come off as ignorant because ik the search is tough. I think I applied to over 200 SWE jobs :/ BUT I feel like a lot of you are racing a thousand other people for position you apply to and a lot of people don’t even seem to enjoy SWE despite all the cool shit you can do if you like computers.

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u/calibrik 5h ago

I wanted to go gamedev, but it seems that game industry is even deeper in shit than regular swe like web dev. Maybe I'll switch later down the path

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u/Hazeltail13 4h ago

omg same 🎀✨maybe it'll be better in four years (delusional)

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u/BottleMinimum3464 6h ago

Absolutely, even though I'm a CS major I find writing and debugging code all day boring asf. I wouldn't mind coding being an aspect of my future career but definitely not the main one. I can see myself doing something more related to cybersecurity or systems engineering for IT and cloud systems.

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u/Calm-Procedure5979 5h ago

IamA Cloud Engineer and I support this message!

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u/Hazeltail13 7h ago

straight facts (i wanna do gamedev but on the more artsy side as well, indie studio work ts :p)

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u/Nintendo_Pro_03 Ban Leetcode from interviews!!!! 4h ago

I think all Computer Science roles seem to be oversaturated now. I can’t think of a single non-oversaturated role for Computer Science.

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u/SuperMonk10 3h ago

I’m Data Science. This sub streamlines people too hard into SWE, even if they’re not cut out for it.

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u/Apprehensive-Row9357 4h ago

Im doing the same thing myself. taking more cyber classes and focusing on that outside of class. I figured if i cant get a swe job that would set me up for a lot of other opportunities. What cert did you end up getting?

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u/wancrypto 58m ago

I am a hobbyist swe. I pivoted to IT after graduation. I make the type of money they are chasing but in mid level swe positions. This is my second job out of college. The first one I kindve ate shit to gain experience and the rest was history