I am a soon to be a new grad with CS major in U.S. and feel there are a lesser amount of opportunities for new grads with B.S. available as I and most of my friends (with or without visa restrictions) are not able to get interviews with a lot of tech companies. Even after doing fairly good in technical interviews, the companies companions the being very picky about past experience and being hard on candidates. I also feel the demand for software engineers, in general, is on a decline and we might be preparing for a possible recession in tech jobs? For example, I have been told: -> Google is already done with limited Full-time SWE hiring they planned. -> Lyft, Tableau, AirBnB, Indeed, Uber are on hiring freeze. -> Adobe, Facebook, Bloomberg, and Salesforce, Stripe are doing very very limited hiring. -> Amazon is very slow in responding this year, Microsoft is being very picky. -> LinkedIn is not hiring new grads without Masters. I have also seen that the majority of companies are hiring via intern pipeline and are hesitant with new grads for sone reason. Is the above true or is it really getting very competitive? Can people currently working at tech companies or trying their luck relate to this?
No
*fewer number of opportunities
I have been a applying since May I got lucky with Google but failed one of my phone interviews. It’s really just a game of luck keep applying you’ll find something soon.
I think you are correct. A lot of focus has shifted to industry candidates vs new grads.
Yes, because there is so much supply now of SWE’s now they can be picky
I got an email yesterday from a Lyft recruiter for an experienced role. Also a lot of contracting recruiter emails the last few days
There are plenty startups in the bay area that are dying to hire. Just network and show them value you can offer.
New grads are not really eligible for Startups!
It's always hard to find a job out of college.. it's always been hard. There is nothing new here
In countries like India, getting a job out of college is the easiest! In fact most of them get it while in college.
TC or gtfo
Renowned program and couldn't land a top internship?? Huh Internship is the easiest and probably only way to get in nowadays. New grad level is extremely saturated nowadays, and you're competing against all the Indians and chinese masters/phds
I submitted a lot of applications ro companies listes here but no response after 3 weeks.