Eh? This isn&#x27;t my experience of condensed matter DFT at all. It&#x27;s a pretty hot area in the UK&#x2F;Europe at least, and there are lots of postdocs being advertised, as well as a reasonable number of new faculty being hired in the area. Maybe if you&#x27;re just hitting &#x27;go&#x27; on someone else&#x27;s code, sure, but developing high throughput analysis or higher levels of theory... I mean, until recently, the head of the Cambridge CMP theory group was a DFT guy.