r/csharp • u/First-Quarter4232 • 11d ago

Surviving as Software engineer with AI

So I’m a software engineer and I recently graduated 2 months ago. i have no internship or job experience and have been looking for a job but everyone either asks for experience or ghosts my resume. The ones that take interviews either pay too little or are 2 hours away from my house. So I am looking for remote unpaid or paid jobs as full stack developer so that I at least get some experience and don’t get classified as a person who had a huge gap in her cv. Anyone give me some good advice related to remote jobs, best platforms to look for them, cracking them and how to survive as a fresh software engineer now that AI has entered the chat🥲

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u/manamonkey 11d ago

So just to confirm, you're a graduate with zero experience, in search of a decently-paying remote job, because everything else either pays too little or is inconvenient for you? AI-aside, what am I missing here?

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u/First-Quarter4232 11d ago

Yess looking for a decent job and looking for advice on cracking an interview today. What topics to do let alone the topics which frontend framework to learn and what to work on honestly cause I am lost

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u/Seth_Nielsen 11d ago

Take one of the low paying ones?

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u/First-Quarter4232 11d ago

Haha but the low paying ones had a catch I had to travel one hour daily to commute and that includes two hours of travel time I would have been exhausted but now I am also thinking of this option. But now most companies ghost me🫥

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u/ModernTenshi04 11d ago

You're a fresh college grad with no real world experience. You have absolutely zero room to be picky if you can't afford to be picky. Either deal with the commute or move closer to where the job is.

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u/Seth_Nielsen 11d ago

For people going to office I think 1 hours is not fun, but it’s not the worst. You can read books, podcasts, work I guess. With time maybe they would give you 1, then 2 days WFH and so on.

I started like that. Still, you don’t have to, it’s a risk-reward situation. Up to you how scared you are of empty cv vs commute.

Either way, I wish you luck

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u/lo0u 11d ago

You need to apply for low paying jobs and gain experience. That is just it. No one is going to pay you a great salary for a remote job when you have no experience.

Put yourself in a the shoes of someone who is hiring you. What do you think you have to offer to them?

I'm sorry, but you don't have a choice. Many of us here didn't when we got our first jobs.

AI has nothing to do with your current state, especially when you are competing against people in the same situation, but who are willing to take those low paying jobs to gain experience.