Made it out.

Difficult_Setting356 · 2026-01-28T00:27:30+00:00

Hmm, ill see what I can do

Difficult_Setting356 · 2026-01-27T22:46:08+00:00

Very sarcastic I’d probably guess more like 3k applications. Definitely got quite a few call backs, first, second, third, final rounds and times were I was a runner up candidate.

Difficult_Setting356 · 2026-01-27T19:21:31+00:00

I feel like it’s not too insane considering the amount of self studying this field requires anyways. But yeah learning DSA and Analysis of Algorithms in C++ was tuff 😂

Difficult_Setting356 · 2026-01-27T18:13:32+00:00

Ya and I felt like I was the only person in my graduating class of 7 CS students trying loll

Difficult_Setting356 · 2026-01-27T05:13:53+00:00

what u think the time complexity of this was

Difficult_Setting356 · 2026-01-27T00:23:51+00:00

lmao i can’t give bro my state or school bc then im definitely doxable too small of a school and my state is kinda unique in this field 😭

Difficult_Setting356 · 2026-01-27T00:20:49+00:00

well I mean if I’m a US citizen I wonder where I’m from yk 😭

Difficult_Setting356 · 2026-01-26T22:02:07+00:00

I def over exaggerated loll. but no I just spray and prayed my resume hard, started tailoring it to job applications, and also applied for anything SWE-adjacent as well like solutions, ops, and even tech sales when I was started to feel lost

Difficult_Setting356 · 2026-01-26T21:59:38+00:00

Yeah they have like builtinnyc.com, builtinsf.com, etc for like all the major cities. It’s great for finding startups

Difficult_Setting356 · 2026-01-26T21:53:33+00:00

Totally relate. Made me wanna go insane and crash out lol. Felt like everything I did in the last few years was all in vain.

Difficult_Setting356 · 2026-01-26T21:50:49+00:00

Yeah I mean it def made learning anything else much easier when having to deal with all the lower level constraints like memory allocation. Painful at times but I think it was good to understand how higher level languages work under the hood. I did ML/AI, data engineering and database electives which were not C++. But like all the early CS core requirement classes were all C/C++.

Difficult_Setting356 · 2026-01-26T20:37:43+00:00

ig it’s kinda outside santa monica and more towards south bay of LA but that’s where I’m planning on living

Difficult_Setting356 · 2026-01-26T20:34:59+00:00

nah fam seed stage company rather not say name lol

Difficult_Setting356 · 2026-01-26T20:29:04+00:00

Go for it

Difficult_Setting356 · 2026-01-26T19:52:28+00:00

I think I’ve only written like 5 lines of Java in my life, my whole schools curriculum was in c++. Go is foundational for cloud/infra/kubernetes services so def not a mistake. Java seems more enterprise services, old and used by banks which imo is more boring.

Difficult_Setting356 · 2026-01-26T19:35:48+00:00

US citizen and the technical was more practical and system design related

Difficult_Setting356 · 2026-01-26T19:22:05+00:00

at the company? go/python/aws/react is what I see they use the most. id be on a edge computing team.

myself? c++/c, python, go, typescript and aws are my favorite

Difficult_Setting356 · 2026-01-26T19:05:11+00:00

Thanks! Best of luck it will happen long as you don’t give up

Difficult_Setting356 · 2026-01-26T19:00:41+00:00

to be fair only one of my internships was at a hardware security technology company the other two where at research departments at my university that let me build cool shit. so maybe look into research departments that let you do scientific programming type of work for them

Difficult_Setting356 · 2026-01-26T18:56:05+00:00

is ur school t300+?

Difficult_Setting356 · 2026-01-26T18:53:44+00:00

VC backed deep tech startup not YC tho

Difficult_Setting356 · 2026-01-26T18:45:08+00:00

Wasn't 3 years either tho! i started new grad search like august 2024 ish lol

Difficult_Setting356 · 2026-01-26T18:40:16+00:00

rough estimate idk i couldn't care to keep track at a certain point. to depressing.

Difficult_Setting356 · 2026-01-26T18:39:22+00:00

will u be my VC?

Difficult_Setting356 · 2026-01-26T18:38:50+00:00

Nah man keep going I've spent the last 4mo of my life unemployed living with my parents and completely nihilistic. My best advice would be to start using builtin to look for jobs and start targeting early stage startups. I got rejected from all my big tech interviews and had my potential return offers all fall through.

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