Comp Science grads turn away from tech

[oboe]

Interesting article about the fairly bleak future of tech jobs:

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The 22-year-old Shanghai native graduated this month with a major in computer science and a minor in economics. But he no longer plans to write code for a living, or even work at a tech company.

Mo begins work in the fall as a management consultant with The Boston Consulting Group, helping to lead projects at multinational companies.

No doubt the companies that contract (est. $200/hr) with Boston Group for a management consultant with "deep experience with enterprise-wide applications" who can "parlay it into some larger cross-company projects out there" will be impressed with this 22 yr old fresh college graduate with no work experience.   I'm sure he'll provide a lot of leadership and his business skills will add immeasurable value to the project team.

[FUNKED1]

Engineering schools are competitive in general, Stanford even more so.  He'll probably excel at anything he attempts, just due to intelligence, work habits, and the mental discipline you get from an engineering degree at a top school.

[oboe]

I'm sure he's bright and capable.   But if I'm a business hiring a $200/hr consultant, I want someone who's bright, capable, AND experienced.

You'd think by definition management consultants would have some experience managing projects in a business setting.

I remember a contract my previous company had with Perot Systems for some software development.   A good portion of the programmers they brought in to do the work spent weeks in their little pods LEARNING the programming language they were to use.
You can bet the Perot Systems sales team didn't represent their programmers as having no development experience in the project's chosen language, but that's what we got.   The most inexcusable is that my company sat on its hands and did nothing about it.    

The lesson I learned from that is you really gotta be on your guard when dealing with consultants.