Number of open faculty positions in CompSci exceeds candidates by a factor of 5
I&#x27;d like to hear some confirmation from insiders before I even begin to believe this. Cries of looming capacity crises have been heard before in the education sector, and tend to be nonsense. And academic positions in general are wildly, insanely, ridiculously competitive because of overproduction of new PhDs, with hundreds of applicants for every open position.<p>EDIT: Hmm, my alma mater Waterloo is looking to hire &quot;up to ten tenure-track (assistant professor) or tenured (associate&#x2F;full professor) faculty positions.&quot; That&#x27;s out of (or in addition to?) 89 current faculty members.  A larger number than I would have expected and as such some evidence for the proposition.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cs.uwaterloo.ca&#x2F;about&#x2F;open-positions&#x2F;faculty-positions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cs.uwaterloo.ca&#x2F;about&#x2F;open-positions&#x2F;faculty-positio...</a>