So I'm from Palm Springs, CA and I attended not a no-name but not super elite school in New England. I did do a semester and research at an elite school in New England. I couldn't get an internship due to personal reasons. Namely my family needed me around the house to support them as certain family members were ill and they moved to Illinois when I left for college to be near other family members. My family member has very recently passed on (read died). I got a job in Illlinois doing enterprise software I'm indifferent to. I worked in a robotics lab for 4 years in university. I built a working drone from 3D printed parts and open source circuit schematics with some computer vision as a side project. I made a beverage can image search that works reasonably well as a side project. I've developed a few apps and was an early adopter of Flutter for mobile app development and maintain 2 applications one doing networking and one doing computer vision. I did a co-op at IBM my senior year, but didn't care for it. I try to make a decent contribution to an Open Source project at least once a month. I've been working at this enterprise software job for 6 months. I've been applying for jobs at robotics/self-driving companies and other software companies I'm interested in. I have a lot of friends in Microsoft that are PM's and SWE's and few friends that are SWE's at Amazon and have them review my resume like once every ither month and have modules to adjust my resume to different positions but I rarely get called back. I will at some point when I feel more comfortable post my resume. Usually when I get an interview I do well, I spent months Junior and Senior year eating and breathing LC and HR. Recently got into Kaggle. I had offers from Bloomberg LP, Boeing, CAT, and John Deere when I got out Senior year but had to stay in Illinois. (If I'd known places were gonna stay remote I would've gone Bloomberg). So I got an Amazon NG interview got all the coding questions right and I think only missed the last debugging question and got an in-person (read virtual) interview scheduling email followed up by a cancellation almost immediately. Last time I flubbed an interview was with Verkada 2 years ago. How long is it going take to like actually start getting interviews? I send out probably ~50 applications a week except during some dry spells when my LinkedIn feed runs out and all that's left are things I'm jot interested in. Most of my friends with 6 months to 2 years into Microsoft or Startups tell me they get much higher rates of response. I don't know if it's because they live in a tech hub. But I don't make enough to live in a tech hub and have a lease for another 6 months. What should I be doing to get interviews at a higher rate? Is it just because I only have 6 months co-op and 6 months industry? Is it because I don't live in a tech hub? I'd prefer to live on the west coast if possible and not be working back-end Spring stuff and especially not DB2 and WebSphere which are awful. TC: $77k #swe
Its because 6mo yoe. Should get bettet as you rack up more exp.
I have to say, your side projects sound hella interesting! Especially the beverage can identification app! I’m also trying to learn / get into computer vision!
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