re: What would be the best degree to pair with a Computer Science Degree in todays job market?

His young male brain would not let him do that. Cut him some slack.

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also the nepotism among other racial groups (Indians mainly) 

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Indians and Jews are usually the worst about this.

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I wouldn’t major in computer science. Maybe the market changes in 4-5 years but it seems bad right now for people. Global competition for jobs is only going to get bigger and they will work for cheaper.

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Internet reaches all over the world so many fields are now exposed to skilled people who work for a lot less.

Glad I'm retired.

One of my daughters graduated with a Computer Science degree two years ago. The hiring market was brutal. There were tons of people in her field with far more experience who had just been laid off because AI took their jobs. She was not going to be hired before them. Things were bleak.

I don't believe the glut of job seekers with CS degrees has disappeared. My daughter recently got a job as a Solutions Engineer more on the hardware side of cybersecurity because of some sales experience she had in college.

My son graduates from high school next year. There is no way I'd advise him to major in Computer Science.

Top companies don’t hire based on coursework they hire based on proof you can operate in real systems and what you can prove in practice under interview conditions. Top companies heavily screen for data structures, arrays, trees, graphs, and algorithms, recursion, dynamic programming, and sorting/searching.

The CS grads that I have interviewed understand concepts taught in class, toy problems, guided labs, but not independent projects that look like real software, and struggle immensely to apply them in a 30–45 minute coding interview, showing a lack of real-world ability. Hiring teams want evidence you can build and ship something with very little ramp time. A candidate needs evidence they can deal with users, databases, APIs, deployment, or real constraints. Without that, entry-level candidates with CS degrees get constantly passed over.

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Graduate Summa or Magna in three years.

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Or did he graduate "Thank you, Lordy"

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Again UT has one of the best CS programs in the Country so he shouldn't worry but he said the job market is tough to break into

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That really doesn't matter at the end of the day if he approaches it a certain way. I would take a small college grad all other things being equal if they had more of what I was looking for than a large school grad. I would tell him:

- Do not become reliant on AI. Make sure you can actually do dev work without AI assistance.

- Make sure to not neglect soft skills. IT & software folks are known to be a generally socially awkward and shy group. Just having the ability to speak to and interact with people can go a very long way.

- Get an internship if possible. Even that small amount of real world (non-academic) experience will help.

- Do not shoot for the moon on the first job. Alot of people struggle to figure out why they're not even getting interviews when applying for jobs they're not yet qualified for straight out of college. Some jobs require years of experience for very good reasons.

- Never, ever stop learning. CS is a field where you can get left behind in a hurry if you don't keep up your skills beyond just what you learned in college.