Last semester of university to finish my master's in CS (undergrad CS). Meta, Amazon, IBM internships. 440 leetcode. The job search is terribly dry. I need help, I've only had one final interview recently and chances are slim. Times are tough, simply unfortunate. Any referrals will be appreciated. I just want a decent job so I can gain experience. Looking for anything really but most of my experience from internships are full-stack. Here is my search so far: Active: 1. Akuna (hackerrank) 2. Amazon 3. Netflix 4. Flexport 5. Sofi 6. Uber 7. egen 8. Pure Storage | App 10/2 9. DoorDash | App 10/2 10. Sigma | App 10/2 11. Qualcomm | App 10/3 12. Cloudflare | App 10/3 13. Datadog | App 10/3 14. Zoom | App 10/3 15. Cisco | App 10/4 | Assessment 10/6 16. Visa | App 10/4 17. Whatnot | App 10/6 18. Yahoo | App 10/6 19. NerdWallet ? | App 10/6 20. Citadel | App 10/15 | HackerRank Assessment 11/4 21. QuantCast | App 10/15 22. Wolverine Trading | App 10/17 | Assessment 10/25 | Interview 10/31 | Final Interview 11/11 23. Clever | App 10/21 24. TikTok | App 10/26 25. NextDoor | App 11/11 Denied 1. Optiver (nothing, denied) 2. IMC (assessment, denied) 3. Roblox (full interview, denied) 4. Databricks (nothing, denied) 5. Tidal (nothing) 6. Microsoft (nothing) 7. Viasat | App 10/2 | Denied 10/8 8. ZipRecruiter | App 10/4 | Sent them old code signal score | Denied 10/10 9. Appian | App 10/10 | Denied 10/11 10. Neeva | App 10/6 | Denied 10/13 11. WeRide | App 10/15 | Denied 10/18 12. Jane Street | App 10/15 | Denied 10/18 13. Meta | Denied 10/19 :( 14. Okta | Denied 10/19 15. Palantir | Assessment 10/24 | Denied 10/25 16. Yext | App 10/6 | Denied 10/26 17. Pinterest | CodeSignal 10/2 | Denied 10/27 18. Forward | App 10/3 | Interview 10/21 | Denied 10/28 19. Aquatic | App 10/24 | Denied 10/31 #referral #thanks_meta #meta #amazon #nice #engineering #software #swe
That's very rough to see, seems like you're doing everything right
Wish you the best of luck OP! I heard there’s some openings for web3 positions at web3.career, not sure if that floats your boat
I applied to 500-800 companies when I was graduating. You barely searched. Out of them for 50-70 companies I applied to 100+ roles in each. I did this in good economic conditions.
don’t be picky, plenty smaller companies will hire. Point is to gain experience and build up a repertoire, Take advantage of possibly being the only person with a masters too. You have good chance. Try looking at local school districts(Local schools really need software engineers for a re-vamp). A great addition is to build a solid portfolio. Do some free lance work and get active on GitHub. Give potential employers some hard proof that you got what it takes.
@OP if there’s a will, there’s a way. think of your job search like a challenge. One thing that’s very important to note. At smaller companies its usually a small team, great opportunity to learn since you’ll be exposed to quite a bit.
I appreciate the thoughtful comments. It’s exactly this, I gotta keep doing to build experience and rep
Dm me 🤗
Mind if I DM you aswell?😁
DM for flexport! We’re hiring a bunch of engineers, referral might help you land a call easier.
@Flexport, may I DM?
Sure
DM for Cadence
@Cadence, may I DM
Sure
Anyone can DM me if you want a referral for any Cisco/ThousandEyes/AppD/Duo/Meraki job or internship. Just send me a link to your resume and the jobs you want. Good luck!
DM for Cisco
Could i DM you as well for a referral at cisco?
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A masters student?
yes, I finish my master's this upcoming december.
DM for Atlassian and Zscalar.