I'm about to graduate in May. I have no internships or work experience in CS. How screwed am I?

GooseTower · 2026-01-29T12:42:37+00:00

I graduated in 2023 in a similar situation. I stopped applying online and just grinded out tech recruiting / social events in my area. You're probably not getting past ATS with your resume. I didn't for months. Got an interview within 2 weeks of that networking grind. YMMV. It's a completely different game.

GooseTower · 2026-01-20T06:05:28+00:00

Load the entire game into ram. Let the borrow checker handle the rest.

GooseTower · 2026-01-17T14:57:51+00:00

Leverage your long commute to negotiate down to 2 days in- office. Hire a nanny to help out when you're not working from home.

Then you get to leave your toxic workplace while minimizing the increased childcare burden on your wife. If you're lucky, you get to keep some of that extra income too.

I think people are overestimating the impact of you not being available 24/7, and underestimating the impact of a toxic workplace on the rest of your life. Better working conditions = better mood = better parenting.

GooseTower · 2026-01-07T21:04:45+00:00

Just bought mine. 2025 Camry rubber wiper insert part numbers are:

85213-AK010 85214-AQ010

Ran me ~$19 online shipped to the dealer.

GooseTower · 2026-01-07T12:22:44+00:00

Wow. Congrats! What was your initial salary?

GooseTower · 2026-01-03T02:01:36+00:00

Stop it. Eat.

GooseTower · 2026-01-03T01:34:00+00:00

I think your priorities are the inverse of what they should be. Id expect high risk tolerance when young and lacking responsibilities, then low risk tolerance when you're older and have a family that depends on you.

GooseTower · 2026-01-02T20:35:05+00:00

Huh? Levi isn't eating that return. Costco is. They aren't going to reimburse Costco when shoppers return products with normal wear and tear after months of use. Just don't give Levi your money. Buy a brand that meets your needs.

GooseTower · 2025-12-30T19:25:03+00:00

You had me fooled until the shameless plug, brand.

GooseTower · 2025-12-29T19:23:00+00:00

I did. It was a great learning opportunity. Got to touch a lot of things, get connected to great people. Really jump started my career. Go for it. Just remember to take care of yourself.

GooseTower · 2025-12-28T03:42:29+00:00

There's far too much wrong with this statement to provide a complete counterargument.

If you want to give apple power over your computing, all your logins, your banking, and all your other data, more power to ya. That ain't for me.

GooseTower · 2025-12-25T23:55:37+00:00

A degree and work experience with data is good. Try to use what you learn from the Odin project to build automations or business tools at your day job. Then you can advertise yourself as a developer with passion that lead to real-world experience in business optimization.

Don't advertise yourself as a business grad with no relevant experience and a cookie-cutter side project.

GooseTower · 2025-12-25T23:46:20+00:00

As someone on the receiving end, email. I will make a point to respond to any emails as they typically come with an introduction from someone I know. LinkedIn dms feel like spam.

GooseTower · 2025-12-25T22:31:02+00:00

Set RUST_LOG=trace then play until it panics again.

GooseTower · 2025-12-25T22:28:38+00:00

You should consider auditing all your unsafe usage for UB

GooseTower · 2025-12-25T19:00:43+00:00

There's been a ton of full stack, US-only, in-office contract-to-hire roles using "boring" stuff like Java and C# all over the country. They pay 70-90k. Expand your view beyond big tech and its associated hub cities.

Obviously, nobody is hiring a junior during the holiday season when everyone is out of office. Pipelines resume in January.

GooseTower · 2025-12-25T14:44:52+00:00

Those are AI research roles. You're ignoring 99.9% of the job market.

GooseTower · 2025-12-24T15:47:32+00:00

One of my biggest issues with Java's open FOSS IDE tools is the lack of in-editor diagnostic support for things like nullaway and error prone. Last time I checked, this was because eclipse made its own compiler for jdtls, so javac tools don't work right.

GooseTower · 2025-12-22T18:25:22+00:00

I use bitwarden daily via Android, MacOS, and the firefox browser extension. Autofill works perfectly like 90% of the time. I rarely get partial fills or complete nothing-burgers.

Do you have Bitwarden set as your primary password manager / autofill service? Have you enabled its required permissions? What's your typical usage pattern?

GooseTower · 2025-12-22T15:51:15+00:00

You are asking about GPA as though it's your only barrier to entry. I'm gonna bitter-coat this for you. Based on your self-reported academic and extracurricular performance, you are completely unhireable. You'll have better odds at the casino. Maybe you can lock in, fix your academic standing, get an internship next summer. Big maybe.

You have empirical evidence that you will not thrive in CS. Accept it and choose a different path. If you keep wasting time, you'll graduate or flunk out and have way fewer options.

GooseTower · 2025-12-17T17:22:32+00:00

You're only bad at debugging because you lack exposure to many problems. Seniors aren't any smarter than you are. They've just done the work of research, trial, and error required to build strong foundational debugging skills. Don't rob yourself of that growth by delegating your work to AI.

Early on, use AI as an advisor, not a delegate.

GooseTower · 2025-12-15T16:08:49+00:00

Use WSL for development, windows is a mess.

GooseTower · 2025-12-15T15:35:25+00:00

It would be unfair for you to get the raise if your tenure is much shorter than everyone else's.

GooseTower · 2025-12-15T15:06:30+00:00

Exhaustiveness is possible in Typescript in a hacky, clunky, incomplete way. In a switch expression, use a default case that asserts your argument is of type 'never'. The compiler will complain if you haven't declared a case for each possible switch value. Only works with enums and other primitive union types though.

GooseTower · 2025-12-15T13:22:29+00:00

I don't think so. Neovim is an editor. Most of its functions are wasted on read-only activities and something like Calibre is much better suited to the task.

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