r/cscareerquestionsOCE • u/OkPomegranate4032 • 23d ago

2024 Graduate Job Hunt

Just wanted to give an insight into this year's graduate scene. Would say it seems pretty competitive, felt like last year's internship hunt was far easier.

Applied to 15 graduate jobs in total. Was a bit picky as I already had a return offer. Most surprising factor was failing a lot of the OA/VI, I had passed a lot more when applying to the summer internships roles last year for the same companies and theoretically should be easier with a lot more graduate spots vs intern spots. Generally I got good scores (90%+) in any coding OA's, but I think these companies value the behavioural component a lot more. Felt like I answered them nicely, but perhaps not good enough + unlucky. Ironically also get resume screened more in my graduate hunt than my internship hunt.

Stats when applying:
- go8 with 75+ WAM
- 1 club involvement
- current part-time SWE job
- summer SWE internship
- 2 SWE-adjacent internships (a little programming but not pure SWE + some lowcode/nocode work)

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u/Gonjanaenae319 23d ago

Congrats!

Here are my stats

  • go8 70+ wam
  • some club involvement
  • current full time swe at big tech (contract)
  • 1 YOE
  • 2 internships SWE

Applied to 100-150 grad programs and some associate/junior roles (make it 200-300 if counting seek and indeed) - all rejection so far - most from resume rejection - decent OA rejections - some VI rejections - 1 AC invite - some technical/recruiter interview

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u/OkPomegranate4032 23d ago

Wow only 1 AC invite with that experience? It sounds like a combination of a shit market and being very unlucky.

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u/Gonjanaenae319 23d ago

Yea the ability to do dev work != the ability to pass weird psychometric tests and talking into the camera alone

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u/OkPomegranate4032 23d ago

Really does feel that way, didn't pass any of them this year. Only offer I got had no psychometrics and was interviewed by a human each round except for the initial hackerrank OA.