根據美國紐約聯邦準備銀行最近的一項研究，電腦科學系的應屆畢業生失業率高達 6.1% 至 7.5%，比生物學與藝術史畢業生失業率多兩倍。
此外，從 2025 年初以來，大型科技公司已裁員超過 10 萬人，打擊最大的是可被 AI 工具部分取代的入門與中階職位。雖然企業裁員原因各不相同，但世界經濟論壇在《2025 未來就業報告》指出，由於 AI 興起，全球約 41% 的企業預計未來五年將縮減人力，儘管到 2030 年大數據、金融科技和 AI 領域的技術職位將增加一倍，但目前 AI 對就業市場的衝擊速度仍暫時快於創造新職位的速度。
電腦科學人才高薪夢的破滅
過去，「學寫程式」與「高薪」、「穩定」幾乎畫上等號，但這個連結正隨著 AI 發展逐漸被打破，接受《紐約時報》採訪、從小在矽谷附近長大的 Manasi Mishra 就有深刻體悟。
Mishra 分享，過去她曾經看過科技公司高層呼籲學生學習 Coding，並強調只要獲得相關學位起薪就能達到六位數的影片。然而從普渡大學電腦科學系畢業後，至今只獲得 Chipotle 餐廳的面試機會且未錄取。
另一位 Zach Taylor，則是在 2023 年從俄勒岡州立大學畢業後，投遞近 6,000 個科技職位，卻只獲得 13 次面試機會，也未收到任何錄取通知，甚至因為「缺乏經驗」而被麥當勞婉拒。
造成這些現象的原因之一，在於求職流程也正在被 AI 重塑：學生端仰賴生成式 AI 產出履歷與自傳內容、大量投遞，企業端則以 AI 與自動化系統在數分鐘內完成初步篩選，讓大量申請快速消失。這種雙向自動化造成的結果，形成人們口中的「AI 求職厄運循環（doom loop）」，即便仍有求職者順利找到工作，但整體求職轉換率大幅下降的現象仍未鬆動。
人才兩極化的現象
同一時間，工程師的職涯走向也開始出現明顯的兩極化：一端是能掌握關鍵模型與平台能力的頂尖人才，企業願意以高額薪資與股票爭取；另一端，入門與中階職位的需求被 AI 工具與自動化流程侵蝕，讓職位不斷收縮，這種兩極化的趨勢，也將是未來科技就業市場的常見畫面。
隨著能夠快速產生數千行電腦程式碼的 AI 工具日益普及，以及亞馬遜、Intel、Meta 和微軟等公司的裁員潮，AI 帶來的轉變正讓多年來一直被科技界領袖視為充滿前景的電腦科學人才，被迫轉換職涯跑道。相較之下，過去幾年一直被勸說要「學寫程式」的水電工、木工、焊接工等藍領技術職，反而是短期內最不容易被 AI 與自動化取代的群體。
電腦科學畢業生曾被視為高薪、穩定的代名詞，如今卻面臨失業率高漲的困境，這不僅是因為 AI 崛起帶來的就業結構轉變，也與求職流程的自動化、人才兩極化趨勢有關，這些變化皆重新定義職涯選擇的道路，也反映就業市場價值觀的巨大變革。
CS電腦科學系夢碎 畢業生兩年申請超過6000份工作 仍未找到工作 麥當勞也以「缺乏經驗」拒絕申請 後悔相信政府科企宣傳
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Growing up near Silicon Valley, Manasi Mishra remembers seeing tech executives on social media urging students to study computer programming.
“The rhetoric was, if you just learned to code, work hard and get a computer science degree, you can get six figures for your starting salary,” Ms. Mishra, now 21, recalls hearing as she grew up in San Ramon, Calif.
Those golden industry promises helped spur Ms. Mishra to code her first website in elementary school, take advanced computing in high school and major in computer science in college. But after a year of hunting for tech jobs and internships, Ms. Mishra graduated from Purdue University in May without an offer.
“I just graduated with a computer science degree, and the only company that has called me for an interview is Chipotle,” Ms. Mishra said in a get-ready-with-me TikTok video this summer that has since racked up more than 147,000 views.
Since the early 2010s, a parade of billionaires, tech executives and even U.S. presidents has urged young people to learn coding, arguing that the tech skills would help bolster students’ job prospects as well as the economy. Tech companies promised computer science graduates high salaries and all manner of perks.
“Typically their starting salary is more than $100,000,” plus $15,000 hiring bonuses and stock grants worth $50,000, Brad Smith, a top Microsoft executive, said in 2012 as he kicked off a company campaign to get more high schools to teach computing.
The financial incentives, plus the chance to work on popular apps, quickly fed a boom in computer science education, the study of computer programming and processes like algorithms. Last year, the number of undergraduates majoring in the field topped 170,000 in the United States — more than double the number in 2014, according to the Computing Research Association, a nonprofit that gathers data annually from about 200 universities.
But now, the spread of A.I. programming tools, which can quickly generate thousands of lines of computer code — combined with layoffs at companies like Amazon, Intel, Meta and Microsoft — is dimming prospects in a field that tech leaders promoted for years as a golden career ticket. The turnabout is derailing the employment dreams of many new computing grads and sending them scrambling for other work.
‘We Would Wait Patiently Outside the Hotel Where the Band Was Staying’
Among college graduates ages 22 to 27, computer science and computer engineering majors are facing some of the highest unemployment rates, 6.1 percent and 7.5 percent respectively, according to a report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. That is more than double the unemployment rate among recent biology and art history graduates, which is just 3 percent.
“I’m very concerned,” said Jeff Forbes, a former program director for computer science education and workforce development at the National Science Foundation. “Computer science students who graduated three or four years ago would have been fighting off offers from top firms — and now that same student would be struggling to get a job from anyone.”
In response to questions from The New York Times, more than 150 college students and recent graduates — from state schools including the universities of Maryland, Texas and Washington, as well as private universities like Cornell and Stanford — shared their experiences. Some said they had applied to hundreds, and in several cases thousands, of tech jobs at companies, nonprofits and government agencies.
The process can be arduous, with tech companies asking candidates to complete online coding assessments and, for those who do well, live coding tests and interviews. But many computing graduates said their monthslong job quests often ended in intense disappointment or worse: companies ghosting them.
“The rhetoric was, if you just learned to code, work hard and get a computer science degree, you can get six figures for your starting salary,” Ms. Mishra, now 21, recalls hearing as she grew up in San Ramon, Calif.
Those golden industry promises helped spur Ms. Mishra to code her first website in elementary school, take advanced computing in high school and major in computer science in college. But after a year of hunting for tech jobs and internships, Ms. Mishra graduated from Purdue University in May without an offer.
“I just graduated with a computer science degree, and the only company that has called me for an interview is Chipotle,” Ms. Mishra said in a get-ready-with-me TikTok video this summer that has since racked up more than 147,000 views.
Since the early 2010s, a parade of billionaires, tech executives and even U.S. presidents has urged young people to learn coding, arguing that the tech skills would help bolster students’ job prospects as well as the economy. Tech companies promised computer science graduates high salaries and all manner of perks.
“Typically their starting salary is more than $100,000,” plus $15,000 hiring bonuses and stock grants worth $50,000, Brad Smith, a top Microsoft executive, said in 2012 as he kicked off a company campaign to get more high schools to teach computing.
The financial incentives, plus the chance to work on popular apps, quickly fed a boom in computer science education, the study of computer programming and processes like algorithms. Last year, the number of undergraduates majoring in the field topped 170,000 in the United States — more than double the number in 2014, according to the Computing Research Association, a nonprofit that gathers data annually from about 200 universities.
But now, the spread of A.I. programming tools, which can quickly generate thousands of lines of computer code — combined with layoffs at companies like Amazon, Intel, Meta and Microsoft — is dimming prospects in a field that tech leaders promoted for years as a golden career ticket. The turnabout is derailing the employment dreams of many new computing grads and sending them scrambling for other work.
‘We Would Wait Patiently Outside the Hotel Where the Band Was Staying’
Among college graduates ages 22 to 27, computer science and computer engineering majors are facing some of the highest unemployment rates, 6.1 percent and 7.5 percent respectively, according to a report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. That is more than double the unemployment rate among recent biology and art history graduates, which is just 3 percent.
“I’m very concerned,” said Jeff Forbes, a former program director for computer science education and workforce development at the National Science Foundation. “Computer science students who graduated three or four years ago would have been fighting off offers from top firms — and now that same student would be struggling to get a job from anyone.”
In response to questions from The New York Times, more than 150 college students and recent graduates — from state schools including the universities of Maryland, Texas and Washington, as well as private universities like Cornell and Stanford — shared their experiences. Some said they had applied to hundreds, and in several cases thousands, of tech jobs at companies, nonprofits and government agencies.
The process can be arduous, with tech companies asking candidates to complete online coding assessments and, for those who do well, live coding tests and interviews. But many computing graduates said their monthslong job quests often ended in intense disappointment or worse: companies ghosting them.
Some faulted the tech industry, saying they felt “gaslit” about their career prospects. Others described their job search experiences as “bleak,” “disheartening” or “soul-crushing.”
Among them was Zach Taylor, 25, who enrolled as a computer science major at Oregon State University in 2019 partly because he had loved programming video games in high school. Tech industry jobs seemed plentiful at the time.
Since graduating in 2023, however, Mr. Taylor said, he has applied for 5,762 tech jobs. His diligence has resulted in 13 job interviews but no full-time job offers.
The job search has been one of “the most demoralizing experiences I have ever had to go through,” he added.
The electronics firm where he had a software engineering internship last year was not able to hire him, he said. This year, he applied for a job at McDonald’s to help cover expenses, but he was rejected “for lack of experience,” he said. He has since moved back home to Sherwood, Ore., and is receiving unemployment benefits.
“It is difficult to find the motivation to keep applying,” said Mr. Taylor, adding that he was now building personal software projects to show prospective employers.
Computing graduates are feeling particularly squeezed because tech firms are embracing A.I. coding assistants, reducing the need for some companies to hire junior software engineers. The trend is evident in downtown San Francisco, where billboard ads for A.I. tools like CodeRabbit promise to debug code faster and better than humans.
“The unfortunate thing right now, specifically for recent college grads, is those positions that are most likely to be automated are the entry-level positions that they would be seeking,” said Matthew Martin, U.S. senior economist at Oxford Economics, a forecasting firm.
Among them was Zach Taylor, 25, who enrolled as a computer science major at Oregon State University in 2019 partly because he had loved programming video games in high school. Tech industry jobs seemed plentiful at the time.
Since graduating in 2023, however, Mr. Taylor said, he has applied for 5,762 tech jobs. His diligence has resulted in 13 job interviews but no full-time job offers.
The job search has been one of “the most demoralizing experiences I have ever had to go through,” he added.
The electronics firm where he had a software engineering internship last year was not able to hire him, he said. This year, he applied for a job at McDonald’s to help cover expenses, but he was rejected “for lack of experience,” he said. He has since moved back home to Sherwood, Ore., and is receiving unemployment benefits.
“It is difficult to find the motivation to keep applying,” said Mr. Taylor, adding that he was now building personal software projects to show prospective employers.
Computing graduates are feeling particularly squeezed because tech firms are embracing A.I. coding assistants, reducing the need for some companies to hire junior software engineers. The trend is evident in downtown San Francisco, where billboard ads for A.I. tools like CodeRabbit promise to debug code faster and better than humans.
“The unfortunate thing right now, specifically for recent college grads, is those positions that are most likely to be automated are the entry-level positions that they would be seeking,” said Matthew Martin, U.S. senior economist at Oxford Economics, a forecasting firm.
President Obama asks America to learn computer science
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This year, he applied for a job at McDonald’s to help cover expenses, but he was rejected “for lack of experience,” he said. 
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