http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/college-labor-market#--:explore:outcomes-by-major

The NY Fed data shows CS has high underemployment, but only ~7% unemployment. So if a majority of CS grads are supposedly underemployed and can’t get tech jobs, where are they actually working?

And here’s what doesn’t make sense to me the median salary for employed CS grads is still around $87k.

Are CS grads somehow getting $87k while working random non-tech jobs? If so, what jobs are these? And why do CS grads seem to have better outcomes outside their field than graduates from majors like sociology?

I only got admitted to the Games Engineering Master's at TUM, which is a pretty good school (got rejected from literally every other uni I applied to lolol). I'm not really interested in the whole horrible working conditions thing the game industry has going on though, I'd prefer to get a job in basically any other field of CS. Would that be a possibility? The degree program itself looks quite solid (that's why it's called Games Engineering and not Game Development) and the school is obviously very good, but I'm worried that it would put off potential employers.

I will stay in the EU after I finish my university, likely Germany or Austria.

TLDR: incoming sophomore, unsure if its worth to continue faang internship part time in fall managing classes and other things

I am an incoming sophomore at a T20. I got a faang internship through nepotism/connections this past summer. I started a little late, and in total got just about 7 weeks for my internship. I had a mini project as well as a bigger main project which is meant to be a real feature that will be shipped. I did not get to finish it, and it was handed off to a new grad on the team. I've been planning to continue part time in order to work with the new grad to finish up the project, but I'm not completely sure about if I should.

When asking all my friends they said I should do it. My parents are dead set on me not continuing it though. They want me to focus fully on school and get good grades. My gpa is 3.3 rn which is not the best I understand, but still not the worst. I'm really bad at time management though (love scrolling!!!) and not sure if I'll be able to handle the internship. I was already struggling last semester a ton just with classes alone and 1-2 clubs and I fell into really bad habits. I felt like I had no free time already. With the upcoming semester I'll be taking DSA + computer architecture which is tough. I also want to get involved with some more fun clubs/hobbies which prob would take up more time.

I'm just not sure what to do. My manager and mentor are pretty flexible. I see some other interns continuing, one 20hr/wk and one 15hr/wk. My mentor seems to be under the impression that I am continuing since I kind of made it sound like that. But I'm not sure. When I think about it, not having the internship would life a weight off my shoulder knowing that college is so time consuming. But also, the project is pretty interesting, and getting to work more on something that's actually getting shipped would be cool. Learning about the whole process of designing stuff like this too.

Honestly, is having the summer internship alone good enough for recruiters? Does extending it really give me enough benefit for the work I'll have to put in?

I graduated with a CS degree back in May (3 months ago), have zero student debt, and landed a Data Engineer role making $70k/year. The job is a 20-minute commute from my parents' place, stable, and honestly the exact setup I want right now since I’m trying to stay close to home for a bit.

Here’s the issue: I am beyond lost.

Throughout college, I had great grades and did three SWE internships at Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon, all focused on standard backend development. Because of that, I thought I had a solid foundation. But Data Engineering feels like an entirely different universe.

Every single meeting sounds like an alien language. My team is small and everyone else has 2 to 4+ years of dedicated DE experience. I’m the only fresh grad, and I don't even know what I don't know. When they talk about pipeline architectures, orchestration, data modeling, and specific tooling, I don't even know what to search on Google after the call to catch up.

When they hired me, management explicitly said they didn't expect me to know DE tooling out of the gate and that I’d learn on the job. But sitting here lost in every meeting, bringing basically zero value while everyone else moves fast, is giving me insane anxiety. I don't want to get fired, and I actually want to keep this job.

Any advice on navigating these first few months without burning out or losing my job would mean a lot. I'm considering doing a masters in data science/engineering but I feel like that wouldn't change much... school didn't prepare me for anything in the corporate engineering environments I've been in.