I leave you with some numbers:
Job applications: 600
Straight rejections: 155
Never heard back: 435
Hackerrank / online assessment: 10
Onsite: 1
Offer: 0
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I heard from some recruiters that they are receiving 20/30 times the applications compared to a year ago, for the same role.
Lots of good developers are being laid off and they can be hired for relatively cheap, making new grads less attractive.
All companies are cutting on hiring, and the first thing to cut are new grads who are long term bets.
With all the remote work, it's hard to onboard and coach new grads.
I heard very experienced people at faang saying that it's the worse time to look for a job in tech since 2001.
I'm a new grad as well (not yet graduated) and had offers (now rescinded) from faang and now totally random companies that 5 months would have hired me right away are dumping my CV or rejecting me after interviews where I performed decently.
It's f***** up, hope it heals soon.
Don't be too hard on yourself but try your best
Now, you hackerrank to onsite ratio is pretty bad. My phone screen rejection rate for example is less than 10%. But I did a lot of math and algos in school, so it's not necessary to have it that good. But you should aim for at least <50%. Think of it this way, if you had passed at least 50% of your hackerrank tests you would have had a job offer by now statistically speaking (see below).
And for onsite, there's not enough data. But do remember that the average onsite acceptance rate is ~20%. So the expected number of onsites (before you ge an offer) is 5.
Online assessments usually aren't difficult.
So, did you mean that you failed 9 out of 10 online assessments and went to only one onsite?
Once you've scheduled an OA for a company, try to find out usual pattern of questions asked by the company in OA. Search recently asked company specific OA questions on Leetcode blogs(forum). From my experience, the pool of questions in OA for companies isn't too big, so you can prepare well beforehand.