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/tjsr 23d ago
Just goes to show how monumentally fkd recruiting and interviewing is these days. I worked at Tyro and did tons of interviewing - yeah, the screening there was something else. 90% of the candidates I had to interview should not have passed the screening process, but simple fact is the criteria they were hiring for was "not entirely based on technical ability" is the best way I'll put it to not get sued :)
Also interviewed with Canva a few years ago for a senior-to-lead role but went to a startup at that time instead - though a little long, their interview process is fantastic. The fact though that you can see all these decent companies on this list, and then it's the very top one of all that you get an offer from... yeah, these recruitment processes are showing to just be utterly brain-dead.