I got the CompSci Degree a month ago and still no job. I feel doomed, how do I get my foot in the door?

I got the CompSci Degree a month ago and still no job. I feel doomed, how do I get my foot in the door?

If you just want a job, talk to corporate recruiters. They can get you an enterprise software job pretty easy.

Took me two years to find a job after I graduated. The key to finding a job seems to be getting recommended by someone in the company.

are there corporate recruiters for comp sci guys?

What were you doing before the recommendation? I'm scared of having a huge gap in my resume

best way, and lying about experience and having someone (family or whatever) who works in an office say you worked there or something.

>graduated back in december
>applied to literally hundreds of jobs
>sent applications to 40+ openings last week
>get maybe 2 replies
>maybe 1 phone interview for every 80

Keep creating, keep practicing the basics. Hardest part is getting HR to notice you, most don't know shit about programming so they go for quantity on resume over quality on resume.

Also what uni, what was your focus, what are you applying for etc?

just graduated with masters, how do you apply for jobs? do you just have to manuall scroll through indeed, monster, etc.?

>I'm scared of having a huge gap in my resume

Yeah, I'm also afraid of this too..
thats why i'm avoiding to get a job for now and going to master degree, but I'm not sure if this is the best option since one day I have to find a job and might have problem with 'no experence'.

Why does Sup Forums have so many of these disgusting job threads shitting up Sup Forums these days?

Here's an idea op, get a job at walmart and fuck off?

Go back to the companies you did internships with and ask if they're hiring. You did bother to get real life experience when you were in school, right?

that's what I have been doing for awhile.

n-no

Did you people go to Bumfuck State Community College or something? I had multiple interview offers from big companies offering to fly me across the country without even submitting a formal application.

you're fucked.

Not CompSci - Net Admin graduate.

That was the same mistake I made was not having ANY experience while I was going to school. If I knew what I knew now I would of been doing internships throughout the whole time I was in college.

>no

Well fuck, that sucks, how does anybody know that you know how to apply the things you've learned? Does your school offer services for new grads looking for shitty first jobs at least? A lot of schools do that because they want to pad their statistics on how well their students are prepared for the job market after graduation, and shitty employers are generally willing to put in job postings because they know they can take advantage of low wages for people like you.

I'm having a hard time, too. I live in New York, and all the jobs are either in the fucking city, and/or senior positions. I have a brief internship under my belt and skills I learned outside of college too and I never get fucking call backs. Is it too much to ask for a job where I can do networking or server administration under a professional so I can advance my skill set? I'm thinking about just going to a headhunter. Finding a job in the current year is total bullshit when HR is in charge of reviewing resumes parsed through an automated meat-grinder.

Maybe I'm just destined for the NEET life.

you are doing something wrong. I sent ~15, over half did a follow up, a quarter of them did in-person interviews, and I got a job despite not being a CS major (applied math B.S.)
>I have a remote front end web dev internship right now fwiw

>what languages are you proficient in
>what area are you looking to work in
>did you do an internship
>did you do hackathons
>did you do projects outside of classwork
>what is on your resume
>are you good with communicating your accomplishments to a dumb hr person

Not op but fucking every job in my area is web dev shit.

Fucking everyone around me in college is web-dev bullshit while im here doing C++ programming firmwares and programming cuda-accelerated algorithms and bilateral filters for video and reverse engineering software and malware and shit and all the shit around me are fucking 21 year old nu-males with their macbooks saving up money for a .io domain programming in sublime text and shit

My only fucking home in my area is doing C++ programming for Unreal Engine VR startups and shit to save myself from doing webdev shit or fucking """apps"""
yes I mad

I apply to literally any skill level, any open position for Software Dev, within an hour of my house

I got a job after 3 interviews lol

How do you guys have any problems with finding a job with a CS degree? Do you live in villages or something? I already have 2 years of experience, and I'm a year away from graduating. Most of my friends are in a similar situation.

C++, C#, Java, Python, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Jquery, AJAX

pref in my city

I made the mistake of trying to depend on my school for an internship and it didn't work. Now I graduated with nothing related to computer science

I didn't do hackathons but I did participate a bit in my computer science club, it started late so we didn't get to work on any projects but I did assist a bit in a build a website workshop.

I have some Unity projects I've done but I'm not sure how I'd showcase them.

my resume basically has languages I'm proficient in, tools I know how to use like Git, my work experience, and my interests

I don't know I've never gotten a call back. I do plan on working on a coding interview book.

>What were you doing before the recommendation?
Working on personal projects and open source projects.

Ya, the gap was a problem. They even doubted I would be good because of the gap, but I managed to impress them enough.

Same thing for me. The only way to increase chances is by recommendation.

If you do that, you will likely end up as

not everyone is as privileged as you

Good God Almighty. Dude! If you know CUDA, you should be doing optimizations for machine learning models. That's the hottest area in the whole field of computing right now, and it's full of python toddlers who can't program their way out of a wet paper sack. Take Andrew Ng's coursera course on machine learning, redo Octave lessons in C++ and CUDA, go out and have companies throw money and women at you.

Have you considered taking shitty jobs on freelancer, upwork or peopleperhour? Even shitty ones that aren't really programming (excel and shit) would look at least ok-ish on a resume or would get you job experience towards better freelance work.

I hate having to put my information out there but I guess I'll have no choice if I want some experience.

Which city? Depending on the city you are in, the comp sci opportunities can come from a few different programmer scenes. Are you looking at the startup world? Government Contract? Government? Big tech company such as amazon, google, etc?

You are going to want to put some links to projects on the resume. If you did not do an internship then you need to show them you know what the fuck you are doing somehow. Comp sci is pretty hot right now, which means the market is kind of flooded with bad programmers who still managed to get degrees.

the fuck is that picture? what qualifies as 60% of a job?

Avoid putting your phone number out there as much as possible, create a post college email to use as a work email. Don't bother with 90% of recruiting agencies

How the fuck did you not get offers before graduating? Did you not do any internships?

>not everyone is as privileged as you

I'm not him, but I went to a pretty shit university and I've had zero problem getting jobs.

Did you people never apply to internships or something? Or are you just completely incompetent with zero projects?

>within an hour of my house

Move? Most companies will help you relocate, and even if they don't the cost of a flight is utterly trivial compared to your salary (which if you're in software in 2017 is probably 80-150k)

to everyone still in school reading this. getting a fucking job is 99.9% who you know.

Anyone who doesnt believe the future is all about engineering is a fool

So if my uncle is a millionaire should I just drop out and ask him for a job?

>drop out first
>ask for a job after
yea man you got it.

did you do any internships? no? you really fucked up.

I did for 6 month, How fucked am I?

I worked doing the samething since week one because there was a bitch who hated me and wouldnt let me grow there. Later I didnt find more internships..

are you looking for companies around the country? the demand is absurd for software developers, as long as you are willing to move. I'm talking $100K+ a huge sign-on bonus, easily.

Got an email? I have some steady work for freelancing types.

no but he should be paying your tuition and housing. I'm so entitled that I'm pissed my grandma who has made over $120,000 per year for the last 20 years hasn't given me a penny towards my education and instead goes on $10,000 cruises every 3 months

just lie a bit in your CVs, you retards. if they need 40 years of experience in Linux and Go, then tell them you have it

>It says here you have 40 years of experience with "GNU/Linux" and "Rust", is this accurate?
I would never lie.
>Kid you're 23.

>drop out of college after two years (I was working towards a shit tier degree though)
>working full time as retail wagecuck
>my millionaire grandma tries to talk me into going back
>"No thanks, I'm not doubling down on my student loan debt to get a piece of paper that won't help me do any better than I'm already doing"
>she keeps going on about how important it is to graduate
>jokingly say "Fine but only if you agree to pay off all my student loans and pay for all my tuition and books and living expenses until I graduate"
>she agrees, the absolute madwoman
>go back and eventually graduate
>grandma paid for all my expenses until I graduated so I could stop wagecucking while I was back at school, also paid off 100% of my loans the week after I graduate
>through sheer dumb luck of being in the right place at the right time I get a great white collar office job a few months after graduating, they would not have hired me without a degree
Feels good having family who loves me, it's the only reason I don't have crippling student loan debt and a job I enjoy instead of a job that makes me want to eat a bullet at the end of each shift

>feels good having a family who loves me
You mean feels good having a family who is rich

>graduate from high school early (GED)
>go to college, major in comp engineering
>listen to people that told me college was a scam so I drop out
>work shit retail jobs and side jobs for ten years and want to kill myself every day
>go back to college when I'm 30, comp sci this time
>internship offers in my second year as soon as I finish my pre-major
>graduate spring of my 5th year, move directly into a salary job paying 70k with one of my internship companies
>been working here for about a year now (I'll be 36 this year)

I'm sorry OP, but unless you are actually one of these kids I've worked with who are so introverted that it's actually awkward and cringy to be around them for more than 5 minutes, I cannot see why you struggle for employment.

>going to college at 30
thanks user, you give me hope. I have a shit major in geomatics, I'm 28 and starting over now with CS.

It's never too late. Also, shitloads of people are cross-training into IT jobs so most companies really don't care what your age is. In fact, I'd even say they're slightly partial toward upper-20's because you're more mature at that age and have a better work ethic than some 21 year old college freshman barely old enough to drink.

I understand, kinda.

>my first year chemistry major at uni.
>enlisted in air force with bonus and tuition waived
>finish first year, happy, about to go to basic.
>get kicked out of the air force for past suicide attempts revealed.
>move to shitty college major in CS.
>Grandpa was in Vietnam, adopts me.
>I get benefits of about 1.3k a month for being his son in college.
>Collect grant money on top of that.
>Get money for going to school, semester is 1.5k, grant is 3.4k.
>Mom took out credit card in my name without me knowing, figure out and pay it off.
>About to graduate(2 year college), applied for internships but nothing yet.
>Thinking about switching to network administration but would need extra classes.

I hope to go back to uni and look for internships, and hopefully that "right place, right time" moment.

I am going for comp e am I making a mistake g

Computer engineering is nice because you get some EE and some math and some comp sci. Plus you get to be considered real stem and not fake like comp sci.

t. boomer
Go watch dance tv shows fag

cross dress

thanks for the push user

The downside is you're more tied to proprietary software and solutions as "standards", and have less freedom in that regard.

I got sniped from my hell desk job a few months out of college without even looking. Just a current linked in and a degree, boom, interview and hire. The place I work at feels like fairy tale land compared to how people describe the industry. I work 40 hrs, get plenty of vacation, get to schedule my own work tasks, take on interesting projects, never get committed to an unreasonable deadline, etc. Completely alright working conditions. Where do you dumb niggers live where you have to suck twelve dicks to get a codeslave job writing adware for literally Hitler?

Got my MSc last year and have been NEET since

Australia

Dumbass. Australia hasn't valued being actually productive since the late 90s.

In my experience working with HR, these NEETs can't get a job no matter how trained and/or educated they are because they act like fucking weirdos instead of extroverted normies during the interview, or they have no idea what keywords to use to get past the resume sorting algorithms and don't even make it that far.

nah, my work ethic has dropped drastically since i was 20. i am now 26.

lol same but it's only beacuse i've been too depressed

Same boat. Just finished a CS bachelor's with a minor in math. I'm in Canada, though, so the market is fucked.

Lately I've just been living at my parents doing HackerRank and trying to come up with a meaningful side project.

What's up with this not being able to find a job meme? Is a college degree that worthless? I'm already working as a student employee developer for 11 bucks (which is slave tier, but I could easily maintain my current lifestyle minus the saving up for computer parts) an hour. The only reason I'm not dropping out is because they refuse to give me a real job without getting a degree first, but once I have no my boss sees no reason NOT to hire me. Is Germany just better? What the fuck is wrong with the world?

How the fuck do you get internships? I'm gonna be fucking homeless after I graduate, fucking kill me

I have one year left, are part time internships a thing?

Summer internships are DEFINITELY a thing. Head over to career fairs and talk to recruiters, they'll offer you stuff just for turning up and being interested. Get phone numbers.,

>blaming your grandma for not paying for your college tuition

Id go on cruises too if my grandson was a whiny faggot on Sup Forums

Priorities to get a job:
1. Work on hobby projects that you can show off. You may also contribute to open source.
2. Move to a bigger city
3. Contact technical recruiting companies (fuck indeed, you should have a LinkedIn though)
4. Apply to every huge company online. Every single one that does software even if that isn't their main thing

The CS market is saturated already. EE and Biotech are the future now.

Start your own job and stop complaining like a bitch. Start doing something

EE will never die

the problem with computer science right now is its too flooded with front end web devs

>EE and Biotech are the future now.
EE work is too difficult for most graduates.

plenty of jobs but nobody is qualified for them which is why there are plenty of jobs.

biotech I have no idea but its probably a similar situation.

wtf are you doing, I literally don't have time to decline all job offers the recruiters are spamming with

Where you live?

Talk to one of your friends or upperclassmen who already have a job and use them as a reference. You get slingshot through the recruiting process if you apply with a reference from a current worker.

>decline all job offers the recruiters are spamming with
>implying any of that shit is real
>implying they just need a pool of candidates so they can hire pajeet without any discrimination accusations
>implying they actually want you

I graduated with first-class honours and multiple internships. It's been three months and I am going in for my first interview in an hour.

The trick was to specialise my CV for the job I was applying for. Recruiters can notice when a CV is made to be generic enough to spam.
You should also include as many buzzwords as possible. During one of my internships my supervisor told me that their company gets ~5000 applications per day and the only way to deal with that volume was to have a keyword counter which automatically rejects CVs which have less than threshold in key words.

How do you guys wait until you graduate to research the job market?
Even before I got into freshman at a shitty college I was researching what to do to improve my credentials.
Getting internships is easy as fuck if you prepare for it early, once you have a few internships at big companies getting a job is easy as fuck too.
I'm shocked how some people just go to college and take their classes and do the bare minimum and just go for whatever shit job they can find in their area.

Go apply to help desk jobs and work there for six months then start applying for jobs in whatever you specialized in like programming or networking (prosperously speaking in broad terms). Here is the thing if you were too socially stupid to line up a job before you got out of college then you need to go show you are a good worker and can work in a corporate in environment. I took a job doing help desk 1 and as soon as I got past six months I started applying. I got a better job in web development around 8 months after got hired at the help desk. They even said oh nice you worked at a help desk while looking for a better job. Shows you can work in a corporate in environment and have a lot of soft skills they don't teach you in university.

How do you even get those jobs? I apply and get no responses. Talked to some recruiters and they told me they are overwhelmed with candidates.

Get a job as intern or student worker before you're done with your degree. Make a linkedin profile and keep it current. Maybe get a twitter shitter account too and follow some useful people, post your own shit, hope you get noticed.

This if you don't have experience coming out of school your fucked
>Graduated in april with IS degree
>no internships because I thought I'd study abroad in germany junior summer but couldn't go because of insurance shit
>miss all internship deadlines by the time I got booted from IT study abroad
> apply for plenty beginning of senior year but cant land anything
>suck at programming and am unqualified for all programming jobs, get BTFO in interviews for the positions
>didn't have any classes about hardware so no one wants to hire me for help desk tech
>QA analyst and systems analyst positions all expect 2-5 years experience and don't even call me back despite applying for around 60 of them
>feel like I'm not qualified to do anything IT related when i look at job requirements
I've applied to roughly 150 places in the past six months and have done 6 interviews now and still haven't landed anything, I'm almost ready to throw in the towel and get some stupid sales job and just accept being a wage cuck instead of getting a job that will teach me more useful and cool IT shit. I've tried reaching out to friends, family, recruiters shit I'm about desperate enough to start checking the african american button when they ask for race.

>shit I'm about desperate enough to start checking the african american button when they ask for race
Do it and get one of those sweet diversity hires. They can't say shit about it because only racist homophobic misogynist Islamophobe stupid Nazis would ever dare to question how somebody else self-identifies.

how do you improve your credentials?

i have 6 years of experience, but a 5 year gap. i'm also a CS student

If you're a woman, you'll need knee pads.
If you're a man, be ready to give up your shit pussy.

she owes me.

why does anyone owe you anything?

Because the whole purpose of reproducing is to continue your lineage and after you create a child your goal should shift to providing a better life for that child than you had.

pretty much this. boomers are a generation of self-loathing, lemming garbage, with some exceptions of course here and there. parenting has been garbage for a very long time.

I honestly have no clue. There seem to be plenty of tech jobs where I live in ohio. Nothing too glamorous like in California or new york, but anyone with the slightest hint of competence should be able to land a job. Not that the job you get will be super great or particularly well paying, but there seem to be a lot of them. Maybe people just don't know how to sell themselves, or how to find those jobs? I haven't had much trouble either.

same here. was pleasantly surprised when i looked on dice for the akron-canton area today.

try continuing your education. most schools will pay you to do graduate school, so long as you keep your GPA at a certain level and teach a freshman math class or something. after that, more doors are open to you.

is web dev any good for a neet trying to get a job ?