Hi everyone,
I’ve been seeing a lot of negativity on this sub related to getting a job in the Software Engineering field. I just got my first official job as a backend engineer and wanted to share some motivation for people going through what I went through.
Heres my journey:
I graduated back in May 2022. To date, I have sent out over 2000 applications. During my first year out of college, there were three separate occasions when I got to the final round of an interview, and hiring was frozen or discontinued for the role. The second year, I got interviews for very specific roles so I would grind out learning a specific stack and just not being great at it. I applied to every industry, every position imaginable. I felt like I didn’t belong in this field and imposter syndrome was terrible. My debt was skyrocketing, and I was in a very dark place.
At a certain point, something clicked in my head. I realized I had lost my love for computers, coding, and creating things. It was not healthy. I started working on side projects and apps that reignited my passion for development. Some of these projects even saw a relative level of success.
I started enjoying the struggle and enjoying the daily leet code grinding and enjoying the application process and enjoying learning new things.
After about 2 1/2 years I landed a 6 figure backend engineer role and it ended up being my easiest interview by far.
Here’s a word of advice from me. Shift your attitude. I spent a lot of nights crying, seeing others that got a job way before me that I believed to be worse engineers. If you want it enough and you keep doing the right things, it will come. You are not alone in this struggle. You are being tested to see if a career in Software is really something you dream of, or if you are just in it for the money.
What I believe landed me the role was open-source contribution experience. None of my internships involved working with large teams for large companies. Open source contribution allowed me to show off the ability to work on larger teams with large code bases. I started with just documentation fixes and leveled up to core bug fixes.
Anyways, I kinda wrote this on a whim and excuse spelling errors but if you can take away one thing, please keep applying. Don’t give up. You are not less than your fellow engineers. Everyone has their own time table for success, you will get your opportunity. Love yall!
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r/cscareerquestions Hi everyone, I’ve been seeing a lot of negativity on this sub related to getting a job in the Software Engineering field. I just got my first official job as a backend engineer and wanted to share some motivation for people going through what I went through. Heres my journey: I graduated back in May 2022. To date, I have sent out over 2000 applications. During my first year out of college, there were three separate occasions when I got to the final round of an interview, and hiring was frozen or discontinued for the role. The second year, I got interviews for very specific roles so I would grind out learning a specific stack and just not being great at it. I applied to every industry, every position imaginable. I felt like I didn’t belong in this field and imposter syndrome was terrible. My debt was skyrocketing, and I was in a very dark place. At a certain point, something clicked in my head. I realized I had lost my love for computers, coding, and creating things. It was not healthy. I started working on side projects and apps that reignited my passion for development. Some of these projects even saw a relative level of success. I started enjoying the struggle and enjoying the daily leet code grinding and enjoying the application process and enjoying learning new things. After about 2 1/2 years I landed a 6 figure backend engineer role and it ended up being my easiest interview by far. Here’s a word of advice from me. Shift your attitude. I spent a lot of nights crying, seeing others that got a job way before me that I believed to be worse engineers. If you want it enough and you keep doing the right things, it will come. You are not alone in this struggle. You are being tested to see if a career in Software is really something you dream of, or if you are just in it for the money. What I believe landed me the role was open-source contribution experience. None of my internships involved working with large teams for large companies. Open source contribution allowed me to show off the ability to work on larger teams with large code bases. I started with just documentation fixes and leveled up to core bug fixes. Anyways, I kinda wrote this on a whim and excuse spelling errors but if you can take away one thing, please keep applying. Don’t give up. You are not less than your fellow engineers. Everyone has their own time table for success, you will get your opportunity. Love yall! submitted by /u/MattNic2 [link] [comments]
Hi everyone,
I’ve been seeing a lot of negativity on this sub related to getting a job in the Software Engineering field. I just got my first official job as a backend engineer and wanted to share some motivation for people going through what I went through.
Heres my journey:
I graduated back in May 2022. To date, I have sent out over 2000 applications. During my first year out of college, there were three separate occasions when I got to the final round of an interview, and hiring was frozen or discontinued for the role. The second year, I got interviews for very specific roles so I would grind out learning a specific stack and just not being great at it. I applied to every industry, every position imaginable. I felt like I didn’t belong in this field and imposter syndrome was terrible. My debt was skyrocketing, and I was in a very dark place.
At a certain point, something clicked in my head. I realized I had lost my love for computers, coding, and creating things. It was not healthy. I started working on side projects and apps that reignited my passion for development. Some of these projects even saw a relative level of success.
I started enjoying the struggle and enjoying the daily leet code grinding and enjoying the application process and enjoying learning new things.
After about 2 1/2 years I landed a 6 figure backend engineer role and it ended up being my easiest interview by far.
Here’s a word of advice from me. Shift your attitude. I spent a lot of nights crying, seeing others that got a job way before me that I believed to be worse engineers. If you want it enough and you keep doing the right things, it will come. You are not alone in this struggle. You are being tested to see if a career in Software is really something you dream of, or if you are just in it for the money.
What I believe landed me the role was open-source contribution experience. None of my internships involved working with large teams for large companies. Open source contribution allowed me to show off the ability to work on larger teams with large code bases. I started with just documentation fixes and leveled up to core bug fixes.
Anyways, I kinda wrote this on a whim and excuse spelling errors but if you can take away one thing, please keep applying. Don’t give up. You are not less than your fellow engineers. Everyone has their own time table for success, you will get your opportunity. Love yall!
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