Job Hunting Tips and Tricks. - Or how to not get stuck as a retail wagie

[The Hardest R]

Idk are there any careers that accept comp sci graduates in lieu of some other degree?
The main reason comp sci people arent applying to non comp sci jobs is because working a non comp sci job is considered worse than a total employment gap as far as hiring managers are concerned.
Like a career where you really need a different degree but a comp sci degree will qualify as well would be perfect.

Technician roles, the same as any other non-college graduate.

Computer science graduates are in a tough spot. Those technician roles I noted above can just as easily go to any other non-engineering degree candidate. In my experience, most CS grads are still expecting FAANG/FAGMAN pay and benefits. I’ve interviewed enough of them and sorry to say, that ship has sailed. We will not be hiring a senior software engineer for $400k that has flex time anytime soon. It will now be the same as our other senior engineer positions which are about $150-200k. I have seen CS candidates get huffy about it and I’m sure it feels humiliating working for half of what you feel you should be earning.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Technician roles, the same as any other non-college graduate.

For me, that seems to be my best bet but "technician" is extremely vague and I've had a lot of jobs that have had different sorts of things as part of that, usually it's just being a monkey with some modicum of skill to run around and do shit and it's easy to get screwed since it's usually difficult work for very little pay.

I used to work as a technician in my old university and it was a lot of different tasks including "build a cart of different chemicals and glassware from different rooms with no direction on where to find the items on the checklist" and get mad when you couldn't make it in a third of the time in a few weeks despite the list of items being completely different. Or in another job in a factory where they constantly demanded you to pull items off the assembly line and test them, then make sure you returned the samples before the line ended, and you weren't told which products were being made that day or when. Or a lab where you mixed and measured stuff but couldn't do any of the actual analysis. Or various night shift jobs that knew you had a college degree but were only interested in $13 an hour (ten years ago).

I just want to find a place to live and grow my career and not get completely fucked again before I can really start.

 

[Spaced Outside Cargo]

In my experience, most CS grads are still expecting FAANG/FAGMAN pay and benefits. I’ve interviewed enough of them and sorry to say, that ship has sailed. We will not be hiring a senior software engineer for $400k that has flex time anytime soon.

I'd like to believe that CS grads are getting realistic about working at FAANG after all the layoffs, because realistically unless you graduated from MIT magnum cum-load, you're working at smaller third parties because FAANG is like a fraternity. Ex-employees are guaranteed a side hustle advising people on how to make a resume/portfolio that will be seen by big tech, but at the end of the day the only way to get in is to already know somebody there.

 

[Among Us Gaming]

Is there any actually decent site or way to search jobs online that shows all the results?
Indeed and the other usual suspects will list a ton of jobs, but to see them you have to make an account. Once you make an account, most of those jobs dissappear since the algorithm only shows jobs that are "relevant." And actually shows fewer jobs than if you weren't logged in.
Is there anyway to get around this conundrum or is this another round of "the job market and tech companies suck"?