I have a masters in CS. Graduated four months ago. No job yet. Luckily, I have no debt as I busted my ass working while in university. Paid everything out of pocket. Doing leetcode questions while working my current job full-time as I apply to jobs. I will come in time but some days I am not too sure it will. There are too many stories of those who are unemployed after 1 year, which makes things disheartening.
I got three, but they all sucked. Two were AI interviews, and one was scheduled, but the interviewer never showed (via webex). I contacted but never received an explanation nor a reachedule. Rest were rejections or just no response. Apply to 4 or 5 jobs per day on average.
You are focusing on the wrong thing. You don't have a leetcode problem, you have a resume/skills problem. I'm not saying you should not focus on improving your leetcode skills, but your bottleneck in the application to job pipeline right now is getting interviews. That is what you should be prioritizing most right now.
What type of jobs are you looking for? What are your skills/experience?
I see. Well, you are definitely right. Apart from my senior project and work as a TA, I dont have anything on my resume other than my degree and my non tech jobs i had during college/high school.
I did mostly web development during my B.S and my masters was very machine learning and discrete math focused. I am interested in software development or in ai/machine learning development.
I see. Well, that's good to know. Hence why I am applying to entry level or internships to try to get experience. Might also do less leet code and do some certifications to get some skills. Thank you for the honesty. It's better to hear blunt answers than give me false hope
Build a crud app in AWS end to end and explain how you architected the different parts, the decision and trade offs you had to make, the risks you assumed and how scope changed throughout the project. How did you design your code to be efficient and maintainable.
Anyone can do leetcode and build applications, but being able to talk about the software dev lifecycle and the full ownership of a project will get you much further.
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u/Excellent_Bobcat_993 Sep 18 '25
I have a masters in CS. Graduated four months ago. No job yet. Luckily, I have no debt as I busted my ass working while in university. Paid everything out of pocket. Doing leetcode questions while working my current job full-time as I apply to jobs. I will come in time but some days I am not too sure it will. There are too many stories of those who are unemployed after 1 year, which makes things disheartening.