Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.
Introduction
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/technology/coding-ai-jobs-students.html
“I just graduated with a computer science degree, and the only company that has called me for an interview is Chipotle,” Ms. Mishra said in a get-ready-with-me TikTok video this summer that has since racked up more than 147,000 views.
Among college graduates ages 22 to 27, computer science and computer engineering majors are facing some of the highest unemployment rates, 6.1 percent and 7.5 percent respectively, according to a report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. That is more than double the unemployment rate among recent biology and art history graduates, which is just 3 percent.
Modified on August 10, 2025