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What language/framework do you use? Not every technology has the same kind of job market attached to it.
Few notes:
1. Do you know about Ramit Sethi? He has tons of free material on finding a job. I would highly recommend that you go through it.
2. How systematic are you about your interviews? Do you have a log of all interviews and questions which you have been asked? I strongly believe that interviewing is a skill by itself. You need to work on it. When I was trying to break in to finance industry, I gave more than 40+ interviews before I could catch a break.
3. I have helped quite a few friends in their job search and all of them ended up in a better place. Though I have never had a chance to work with someone who is a fresh graduate. I live and work in NYC. Please contact me (details in my profile) and I will try my best to help you out.
Good luck.
What language/framework do you use? Not every technology has the same kind of job market attached to it.
University focused on Java. I mainly use C# with some interest in PHP (personal project), F# (went to several meetups and a workshop), and JavaScript.
From your comment, it looks like you are hustling but haven't seen the results yet. Please do not give up and keep hustling. Few notes: 1. Do you know about Ramit Sethi? He has tons of free material on finding a job. I would highly recommend that you go through it. 2. How systematic are you about your interviews? Do you have a log of all interviews and questions which you have been asked? I strongly believe that inte…
2. Not systematic at all.
3. I'll consider it.
So think of yourself as a person whos built a couple of websites. An internship would be a huge step up.
Think about what kind of technologies you want to work in. Do you want to do web dev? You should probably learn a popular mvc framework (laravel, rails, django, Etc)
I dont think a CS degree from a non-high-end school moves your career very far unless you want to work for the gov (have you given that a shot?). So think of yourself as a person whos built a couple of websites. An internship would be a huge step up. Think about what kind of technologies you want to work in. Do you want to do web dev? You should probably learn a popular mvc framework (laravel, rails, django, Etc)
Most people from my school go work for defense contractors, then move up from there. I've only seen one person in LinkedIn work at Amazon. Nothing Google nor Facebook.
"have you given that a shot?"
I tried with the help of the CS department's chairperson, but I never made it past the resume filter. I don't think my low GPA qualifies for anything gov related.
"An internship would be a huge step up."
Sure. Unfortunately, I've had one unpaid internship, and was offered two more unpaid internships (what a joke). The closest to a paid internship I know of getting would be launchcode.com.
"Think about what kind of technologies you want to work in."
I decided on .NET; mainly C# for now. I don't really care whether it's web dev or something else. I'm familiar with ASP.NET MVC.
If anyone reads this, I have an update. I ran an in-person mock interview with an HN user. It wasn't anything extensive; just a few simple questions. After it, I really looked at what I've been doing. It made me realize that I'm shit at interviews. Maybe I'm not that bad. Maybe other people do worse and still get jobs. But honestly, there's so much I can improve. I have no idea how I even passed some of my past inter…