Is a Computer Science Degree STILL Worth It? (2024)

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Let's talk about computer science degrees, what you'll actually learn, and who can and cannot benefit from a CS degree in 2024.

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[ericgacoki]

The amount of stuff you learn on your own is overwhelming.

[ji-wonseong]

Unless you absolutely love CS, are willing to devote your free time to coding and learning more about architecture regarding software or hardware, right after multiple classes of coding and time-consuming homework, don't do it. If you're only going in because of your parents and could not care less, pack your bags and move out. It's not worth the debt, insanity of your parents, and inability to get a job after wasting 4 years.

This job market is so bad, it's not even funny. My peers couldn't get a job for like a year, and they're not high-paying either.

The biggest problem is a lot of these jobs where I live in michigan always requires a CS/IT/ or equivelant degree in order to get your resume to pass HR filters. Just think about it, who do you think HR people will give an interview to, a college grad or someone who did a coding bootcamp? You're very lucky if these people even heard of what a coding bootcamp is.College is like traditions over here, it's expected for you to have a degree to be taken seriously, because the other job applicants have one so you should to is the expectations around here

[ManFinest]

If a company does layoffs, they will lay off the people without CS degree first. I seen it happened.

[shimminykricket]

Self-study isnt anywere near as effective as learning in a formal education environment and we know because as the number of coding bootcamp grads and self-taught candidates increased, complains about new developers lacking key CS skills has increased with it.

[jsn]

computer development has changed but computer science hasn't changed at all, if your sole focus was on application development(like web or mobile), it definitely isn't what it was before but if you want to focus on the science aspect of comp sci then there is no reason not to follow it.

[erenyalcin]

Year-over-year change in the US for software development positions are -44.8 % are down according to indeed data. And finding a job as an entry level developer is a nightmare.

[LG-bbzq]

So many normies nowadays taking CS. They dont know anything about what their learning, just using chatgpt. Theres gonna be so many subpar programmers, but also more good ones.

[Compsciuk]

Self learning is the way to go in my opinion. I’m at university right now and the majority of my practical experience/ applicable skills were from self learning 🤷‍♂️

[Uncreeperble]

Anyone who is looking for a job knows how sayurated it is. We have too many bootcamp programmers who suck at everything because they dont do the foundations (cause heycwhy would they have to when its not in their day to day job). We are in a desperate need for GOOD programmers and COMMITTED programers who can show up on time and stop complaining so much, aka college graduates 😅 not these modern day "pick me' programmers who watched youtube videos

[damonmartin]

You can use it for standard business jobs too. So you unlock the IT sector and business which is more than most. Perhaps, even the finance industry if you specialise more to AI and maths.

[jeopardy]

The problem with the CS degree is that the powers that be at a company have unreasonable expectations of programmers because they don't understand the background of a computer professional. They think that a programmer can do business analysis, doling out assignments without a spec.

[xhivo]

Self-study can be as good but it's much, much harder and need an incredible amount of discipline however bootcamps are not comparable to a degree as there the goal is completely different and you can never get anywhere close to the level of education you can with bootcamos alone.

[mahmoudghazizadeh]

5 years ago, In Japan, a finance company tested AI and all 40 employees got laid off after that . I guess governments around the globe don't want do mass layoff . because the consequence of that will be devastating. they don't want societies fall apart, But we will see people lose their jobs quietly .

[joce]

Need advise how can i get into another field without going to college again? I graduated with a CS degree and still unemployed. Im burned out always updating my skills for nothing such a waste of time.

Please help. 😢

[Pixldwhmsy]

well ai is going to take over accounting so what should i take cyber security ugh help me someone please i have like 40 days to decide

[EzekielKovalchuk]

I'm in CS degree on my first years. im quite good at it, but i don't know what to follow between Data Scientist or BigData or Cybersecurity. Is there someone with experience to give his opinion and maybe help me decide ?

[DKTY]

I notice lately are new hires with a CS degree understand the knowledge but struggle with implementing into projects we are working on. While are self taught and bootcamp hires can almost always jump in adding new concepts to the projects we are working on. Algorithms and data structures can be easily learned and most self taught employees have understand concepts enough to pass interview questions. Atm the company I work for has drop degree requirement and requires all applicants to have a portfolio based of requirements of the job. My hiring manager told me they don't even look at the education section anymore and it seem so due to our workforce being about 30% self taught or boot camp trained. My company is mid size we have 3-4k employees atm give or take. I'm self taught now work as a senior software engineer with 6 years experience in the field and my advice is build your portfolio by working on topics you just learned and when trying to apply to jobs build projects related to job descriptions on the position you want. Hackathons are great for networking and sharpen your skills.

[matthieu]

If you want to be a software eng now days you absolutly need a degree, the golden days are gone and where i work the resumes of peoples without a master degree are put in the trash(i'm not kidding even if you have experience)

[bedtimestories]

I am enrolling for a CS degree at WGU. I am 23 with 6 years of experience in software. Started programming at 13. This stuff just comes more naturally to me. I didnt get a degree due to cost but now at least enough to fund a this very specific degree at this very specific school. Just seems like the right thing to do. It will fill in knowledge gaps and be a boost to a resume. I do think you should only do if it if you love working with computers. I've worked with CS majors who taught me A LOT but I've also worked with CS majors who barely got by. It does feel like one of those fields where passion is king. I just got lucky by discovering it early tbh, I am so fortunate and grateful for that.