Aspiring computer scientists are sinking in a job market overtaken by AI, as a recent graduate who expected to make six figures could only land an interview at Chipotle.
Manasi Mishra, 21, was under the impression that if she worked hard in school and mastered coding, she'd have a prestigious tech job with a cushy salary lined up straight from college.
'The rhetoric was, if you just learned to code, work hard and get a computer science degree, you can get six figures for your starting salary,' the San Roman, California native told The New York Times.
But the bright-eyed young coder - who created her first website when she was in elementary school - was in for a rude awakening.
She spent a year scrambling for jobs and internships and still found herself graduating from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, without a single tech offer.
