Debatable. there's a lot of negative sentiments on cs now. I think the golden period for cs is over. The golden goose was 2015 to 2020.

If you're a student entering cs in 2020-2022 because you were sucked in by the high GES and FAANG stories, you're in for a hard slog. When popular sentiment says that X is good to go into or Y is good to invest in, that's usually when you're already late to the game.

There are lots of so-called FAANG calibre recently retrenched people looking for jobs. The non-FAANG calibre people lagi worse.

If you look at the longer term trajectory, the undeniable fact is that those salaries and large amt of roles were unsustainable to begin with. The medium term natural outlook for this sector is really to offshore most dev jobs to cheaper SEA economies. For the low tier coding jobs, to countries like India or PH.

There's no large Machine learning or data science market to speak of here, because Singapore is more business HQ than product innovation hub.

Only product management and other management track roles will remain in Singapore, and will continue to be well paid, but how many of those roles do tech companies really need?

If you're not confident of landing a bay area job, the notion that CS allows you to waltz into good outcomes with little effort is a rapidly diminishing reality. Only non-tech people looking in from the outside think it remains as good as it was in 2019.