I graduated end of august with my bachelors in computer science in 3 years with 1 internship. I got a Test engineer role but I quit within 2 weeks since there wasnt any coding involved. I moved to seattle and grinded leetcode / ctci for 8 weeks, then got google and amazon interviews lined up. Did ok in both, ended up not getting amazon and still on team match for google which at this point is hopeless since I need a job. I’m not gonna lie, I expected to be able to get many more interviews but I really couldn’t line up more than those two. For the past 2 weeks I kind of been doing nothing which is obviously terrible, but I am ready to start grinding again but don’t know what I should be doing. Should I just walk up to companies or call or email, basically what should I do to line up more interviews? What would you guys do if you were in my scenario?
I'd say stop trying to speed run life and enjoy it a little.
Apply for masters too. Unfortunately hard to get top company job once you are out of the college. While doing masters, focus more on job search than finishing it quickly. Without other offer Quitting a testing job was not really a wise move. From that experience take any small offer and eventually grow over years. Don’t rest keep applying. 200 is nothing. One company may have dozens of SWE posts. Apply all and consider changing resume as needed before applying to each post. Track the resume copies and posts on excel. Good luck
Thanks for your response. Do you think I should do my masters to be more competitive? Wouldn’t that just be a waste of 2 years ?
I have this radical belief that degree maters in real work environment but not with the interviews. Only thing they care is how fast you can solve given problems in a optimal way. Universities don’t train people for speed(interview expectations are ‘10 minutes to recognize the problem is bst + code bst’) . Going back to college will give you second chance with internships and student recruitment programs. Shoot for good universities. This time your goal is job not the degree. Spend more time on job search than degree. Or join a small company now and grow from there.
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