RE: LeoThread 2026-03-05 16-42

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A $180,000 Stanford degree isn't what it used to be



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A recent Stanford CS grad finished last month with $180k in debt and a 3.8 GPA
Applied to 847 entry-level jobs since January
Received three phone screens and no offers

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Interviewed at a Series C startup in October; the hiring manager said bluntly
We used to have 8 junior engineers. Now we have 2 seniors with Cursor and they ship faster than the old team of 10

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The career services office still tells students that "software engineering is recession-proof" while their alumni data shows 67% of 2023 CS grads are still unemployed or underemployed

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Meanwhile offshore contractors in Hyderabad are getting $35/hour to do senior-level work using Claude 3.5
The same work used to go to American new grads for about $140k total comp

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His internship manager from last summer was just laid off — a team of 12 mobile engineers replaced by three contractors and a React Native AI agent

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Bootcamp grads from 2022 who landed $120k offers saw about half of them managed out during "performance reviews" that were really AI productivity audits

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He's $180k in debt for a degree in a field that stopped hiring humans at his level around 18 months ago
But sure, keep telling kids to "learn to code"

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