Comment by dizlexic
My experience is companies are hiring CS grads for helpdesk, and maybe eventually promoting them to what they went to school for.
I'm a self-taught senior. At my current company have only ever been a developer, but everyone I work with started as help desk and got moved to development later. I know this is anecdotal, but they all have CS degrees. I think people still underestimate the glut in inexperienced CS grads we're working through rn.
I learned recently our company has an informal policy to discourage hiring fresh grads, which would explain why I haven't seen any hires at the bottom of our grading scale. I'm one step above (though arguably I could be two up by experience, I misplayed my negotiations), but I kinda feel like I'm dangling off the edge.