Students and young engineers are fed up with Big Tech
and rising interest rates with layoffs of hundreds of thousands of tech workers. Many of those same workers spent the last several months looking for new positions, only for rejections to meet them.
Students and recent graduates majoring in tech-focused degrees such as computer science and engineering hear this type of story frequently. Peers and mentors warn them to avoid the trappings of embarking on a Big Tech career. Previously lauded as one of the most stable, perk-heavy, and high-paying fields, some now see tech as capricious and offering young workers an uncertain future.
Interest in jobs outside of well-known companies has soared, according to a study surveying close to 2,000 students this year from Handshake, which helps prep and connect students with jobs at many major tech companies. Students in computer-engineering fields are also increasingly interested in applying what they've learned to have a positive impact on society, not simply landing a big paycheck in Big Tech.
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