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> <br>> Anyway, poorly-trained people in any discipline are not going to do<br>> well except in exceptionally fat years, and computing is certainly a<br>> discipline that, in many cases, is easy to move offshore. My view is<br>> that over time, good graduates will be in exceptional demand, while<br>> weak graduates will have none at all.<br>> <br><br>Come now Shiram, there are lots of people who don't want to go to CS grad school, didn't go to a name school and/or maybe don't have the stellar GPA that the likes of Google tend to look for.<br><br>It doesn't make them poorly trained. <br><br>Lean times are across the board. The point is that CS grads are doing worse than comparable graduates of other disciplines.<br><br> Alot of people who have hiring responsibility now came from non CS/IT backgrounds during the technology boom of the 90's. So it's hardly suprising that a CS grad holds no lustre for them.<br><br> </body>
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