I graduated with my CS Bachelor’s last year and am now working on my master’s degree in CS at a T5 engineering university and want to get into the tech field but for some reason it just feels like there are invisible walls keeping me from getting in. I’ve done several internships in the past, mostly at start ups, fintech and quant trading firms, but over time I’ve realized that I value wlb more than I originally had thought, so now I’m trying to get into Tech. I was able to get at least a few responses from big tech internships in my sophomore year of undergrad. Nowadays, however, it feels like the door is just permanently shut on me. I lost a couple return offers due to the economy and a big tech new grad offer last year due to a family emergency. I also got rejected from a couple companies last year after passing all their interviews because of roles filling up. I reapplied to several of these companies again this year and they just resume rejected without explanation or said my skill set isn’t what they need, even when I applied with a cover letter and referral. I’ve also heard several big tech companies (and quant firms too) aren’t hiring new grad this year, including Facebook, Amazon, Google, and Virtu. Maybe I’m overthinking this and more opportunities will come later, but it just feels like even though I put in a lot of effort in school and in my internships, keeping a perfect GPA and learning as much as I could, that in the end I won’t even have an opportunity to apply to the tech industry because of factors outside of my control. Idk I feel so hopeless right now and am wondering what the future will hold, and if anyone has any advice #engineering #software #swe #newgrad
As a backup plan, be open minded towards non-tech industries, where there is a strong labor shortage. Find a reputable F100 company while accumulating experience, and break into tech at the right moment.
Hmm yeah I might do this. Not necessarily non tech but I’ll look into more niche roles, like data engineering, ML, or security engineering and see if I could maybe get something there
Where did you get this idea that F100 non-tech companies are hiring more for entry level? From my understanding, Sales/Marketing/HR/Operations/Data/Software/QA positions regardless of tech/non-tech are not hiring for entry level…
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Yeah unfortunately there’s no companies offering new grad jobs. Some people think it will get better, I am not of that opinion personally
It’ll definitely get better, it’s a matter of how many years they take to bring rates back down
It won’t get better, engineers can be replaced with LLM