I don’t normally post but I’ve been getting kinda anxious about this as graduation gets closer.

I started seriously looking for jobs in mid-March and have sent out around 25 applications so far with the oldest being a little over 3 weeks old, and the only responses I’ve gotten are what seems like 2 auto rejects I got almost immediately after applying with no other contact otherwise.

My undergraduate was in chemical engineering but I did a master’s in data science bc I wanted to pivot into more-techy jobs. Idk if my lack of a cs undergrad is hurting me a lot or what.

Maybe this is normal and I’ll start hearing back from places soon but I just wanted to hear someone else’s thoughts.

  • eduardog3000 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    If you haven’t already made something from scratch all the way through, it’ll be good experience to do that

    Yeah, that's the problem. I have a ton of projects... that never really got off the ground.

    Getting the first tech job is always the hardest, but once you’re in things get a bit easier.

    Thankfully I already have my first (through a job placement program). But it pays relatively low for the field (though still pretty good) and I'm not too happy with it in general. So basically my entire resume is "these are the technologies I've used, no you can't see any examples" and "I've worked at xyz for a couple years".

    • meme_monster [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      What's kept you from completing any projects? Surely there's something you produced of minimal value right? An alpha release? Something you got running on your machine?

    • Janked [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Makes sense, I would work on either polishing up and finishing some of the projects you started in the past, or reduce your scale a little bit on what the projects you're doing are trying to accomplish.

      You don't even need to make anything new, just having a deployed CRUD app would be much better than nothing to show.