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HN submitter shares a post from an X "influencer" showing a video of a post from a LinkedIn "influencer" linking to a WSJ article with a quote from a Berkeley professor about some CS students worried about not getting jobs. And now the title will be treated as the objective truth by everyone looking to confirm their own biases.

The internet in 2025, everyone.

I'm tempted to screenshot and share this comment on Bluesky, but I have reservations.

From where? What internships? What projects? 4.0 GPA is completely meaningless without more details. There are 10 useless GPA mills for each real uni.

I don't want to sound too arrogant but I am a very well-compensated and strong engineer, and I didn't have a 4.0 because I took hard classes and spent too much time on research projects. I was 3.8 or 3.9 or something.

A true 4.0 smells to me. You truly didn't over-reach with a graduate class you weren't prepared for even once?

The post is about CS grads from Berkeley, which is not known to be a GPA mill.

But we never got an inside peek into the realities of UC Berkeley students, including in the original source found through several hops of telephone.

What facts were we hoping to anchor the discussion on?

Because jobs get outsourced overseas and US hires people from overseas with H1B visas.

This isn't just an outsourcing/H1B thing. I think the current H1B rhetoric is partially used as a distraction from a bigger shift: a broad deprioritization of US hiring by US firms.

The company I work for stopped hiring anyone close to software development in the US for about 2 years now.

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