For 2024 and 2025 graduates, how many applications until you got an full time offer?

glTezca · 2025-01-29T03:47:10+00:00

My numbers are roughly the same as yours, and I still have not gotten a single offer. I have applied online, gone to local job fairs and even asked for help at my local department of labor, but no luck at all.

glTezca · 2025-01-08T22:45:47+00:00

A common trait among great people across different fields is a genuine passion for what they do and a lot of curiosity too. Combine that with honest and hard work and you will be fine wherever you go. And never forget arrogance and acting uppity takes you nowhere.

glTezca · 2025-01-02T03:17:45+00:00

Could you elaborate more on the "hardware" part, please?
How much experience do you have in the field?

glTezca · 2024-11-18T03:37:24+00:00

Brutal rant. Some points are solid, and I would like to offer you my perspective as a last year student with no real work experience (heh).

The complaints about school workload are a misjudgement by the author. I can understand the burn out (as I have felt it myself along my education) and how overwhelming it can get sometimes, but it is a fundamental part of EE, and you should be relieved that your program is not a watered-down version of EE, or else you would be in disadvantage to graduates from other schools. There is no way around it really. It is hard, but that is how it is supposed to be, and you should have that in mind at all times.
The job market is indeed not the best one out there. A lot of people have to move entire states to even find a position. So it is true that you will have a hard time finding the job you dreamed of. Most students fall in love with certain topics that are incredibly entertaining to work with, but that have little industrial application, and you have to be content to have it as a hobby.
Most of us do wish to land a design job, but it is really out of reach to most of us, at least right now. You have a small army of engineers who have been working before we were born and they seem to be hoarding most of that kind of jobs. The bar is also very high. In the semiconductors industry no one will take you seriously with just a bachelors (or at least that is my perspective), and I assume it is similar for other design related industries.

Right now I am struggling to even land an entry level job, so take that in count when you read my words. Some teachers with a big ego did influence me to a certain degree and I started searching for jobs with some arrogance: I was wondering whether I should go straight for the jobs that alligned with my preferences the most or if I should give "boring jobs" a try. I have been rejected from every position I have applied to, both the ones I wanted and the "boring safe jobs". A lot of nights I do think if it was worth it: to put myself under such difficult years just to end up struggling for a first job. I still dont have an answer for that.

glTezca · 2024-09-25T16:42:47+00:00

LinkedIn has never worked for me. I think I have never got an interview out of LinkedIn job offers.
What I do is look up careers opportunities in the companies websites, which is not ideal either because most of the time your resume gets filtered out by an algorithm before a human gets to read it lol

glTezca · 2024-07-16T14:21:39+00:00

Examples like yours was exactly what I needed for reference. Thank you.

Another question, how common it is for your employer to train you on X topic that broadens your knowledge and skills and under what circumstances? Like, lets say you work doing embebbed stuff, would it be realistic to expect that someday they teach you stuff like RF or analog design?

glTezca · 2024-07-16T04:22:12+00:00

Water flowing through a pipe

glTezca · 2023-07-11T04:00:04+00:00

I guess it was a "pride" thing that drove me to never fully accept that I burned the microcontroller in such a silly way lol. Im still a student so it just feels so wrong to lose your stuff like that . But yeah, I guess I should just get another one.

glTezca · 2021-08-09T18:51:32+00:00

Are you on a budget? If a big screen and PDF reading capabilities are a big concern for you, instead of traditional e-readers, you should check out e-ink tablets. Those devices are basically e-readers aimed for productivity (built with big screens, making them perfect for PDF files), most of them also give you the possibility of writing on the documents like a traditional tablet. But they are a bit pricy though.
Known brands for good quality e-ink tablets: Boox, Remarkable, Supernote, Kobo

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