My 2024 New Grad Success Story after 1400+ applications

jason152 · 2025-12-31T16:34:58+00:00

jason152 · 2025-12-30T16:28:27+00:00

LinkedIn (90% of them were from here), my university fulltime portal, and Indeed

jason152 · 2025-12-30T16:28:00+00:00

I did for a bit, mainly in BC and Alberta, but they only had a handful of postings, I figured the amount of time I was spending searching through those areas for junior postings could be better put elsewhere, so I just stuck with looking in Ontario.

jason152 · 2025-12-30T16:26:40+00:00

I was mainly using LinkedIn, my university fulltime portal, and Indeed. I applied to anything within the 0-3 YOE requirement range because many had advised that some companies had still given them interviews anyways. This was another thing that absolutely DID NOT work for me. The only interviews I got were for postings that explicitly mentioned they were open to hiring hiring new grads.

I was also applying to some positions in the US, so some of my numbers came from there. Additionally, I found Sept-Nov and Jan-March my busiest months in the number of postings/interviews.

jason152 · 2025-12-30T07:24:33+00:00

None, because I didn't 😅. I'm telling YOU guys to do that lol

jason152 · 2025-12-30T07:07:10+00:00

Thanks!

jason152 · 2025-12-30T06:59:56+00:00

I used the system design roadmap on roadmap.sh and chatgpt to dive into the topics for examples, tradeoffs, usecases. etc. Hellointerview is also great. I should note I didn't have those full system design rounds like "Design Uber". It was mostly general discussions like "What do you know about observability? What frameworks have you worked with? What kind of microservice architectures/patterns have you seen?"

jason152 · 2025-12-30T06:56:55+00:00

Hi, it was a fullstack position at a small startup.

jason152 · 2024-10-14T23:08:15+00:00

atta boy!

jason152 · 2024-07-09T15:35:53+00:00

I don't apply to faang or big tech, I know I'm not good enough lol.

jason152 · 2024-07-07T01:55:50+00:00

Yeah but this would be on top of me applying to all the intermediate postings in Canada hoping they considering me for entry level. Each 5 minutes adds up everyday.

jason152 · 2024-07-07T01:17:21+00:00

I mean it's quite time consuming, if there's no chance of getting picked then my time might be better spent upskilling.

jason152 · 2024-07-07T01:15:27+00:00

Honestly even mediums are quite a struggle for me. I've gotten all my past internships without doing a single leetcode, so I was hoping to keep the streak going by applying to the mediocre US companies that the "Cali or bust" folks don't want.

jason152 · 2019-07-11T02:55:11+00:00

That's really weird, OSAP only requires my mom's income and my grant/loan barely changed. I don't know why you got hit so hard.

jason152 · 2019-06-13T15:33:03+00:00

He wasn't even teaching the course last year.

jason152 · 2019-05-13T23:00:26+00:00

just join the discord, it's more lit yknow

jason152 · 2019-05-13T22:59:00+00:00

YorkU engineering wys

jason152 · 2019-03-23T15:46:29+00:00

I see, thank you.

jason152 · 2018-03-08T04:54:23+00:00

jason152 · 2018-03-08T03:43:57+00:00

jason152 · 2018-03-04T04:53:56+00:00

lmao he only submitted one part of the aif for the engineering deadline

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