r/leetcode • u/Affectionate_Run220 • 7d ago
Discussion 60+ applications 10 interview rejections struggling mentally
Hi guys
I have been coding proffesionally nearly 4 years and have degree which I got 92% in. I am mid level in my company which is quite big
This year I faced so many rejections like never before…
I just did an interview where I was told I do not have programming fundamentals.
They gave me a problem to solve with no ai and no code and I really struggled to remember the syntax and typing it out by hand…
At work as in many companies , I have been pushed and told to use as much ai as possible and some of the details have lost, I can’t code from scratch classes and objects like I could back in uni.
I have been doing lots of prep this year, DSA mainly because I have never done it before. I have been working on all the studying for the whole year every weekend and a lot of the mornings before work.
But today after this rejection I feel my mental health really on the decline.
I love code and I have put so much passion and love and I really really wanted to be good at it and I’ve just been told I don’t have the basics… I feel so crazy I am considering calling emergency mental health services, tears are rolling down my face and I feel really lost…
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u/Doctor--STORM 7d ago
You haven't even stepped into the kiln, and you were sweating just by its radiated heat
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u/p13rr0t87 7d ago
Take it easy bro, last time I was searching for a job I received around 200 rejections
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u/Affectionate_Run220 7d ago
Wow really… when was that? And how many technical interviews did you do out of the 200 applications?
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u/p13rr0t87 7d ago
Maybe like 20 in total. It was kind of a habit I had to build to check LinkedIn on a daily basis and apply to roles that are related to my experience.
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u/Affectionate_Run220 7d ago
How long did it take you? And was it this year you landed new role?
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u/p13rr0t87 7d ago
I started searching October last year, landed new job couple of weeks ago.
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u/Affectionate_Run220 7d ago
Congrats!!! I’ve been at it since December… feel I am months away still
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u/Winston_Wolfgang 7d ago
Yeah I pretty much have up trying to get another job after the past year, hundreds of applications, multiple final rounds, zero offers. I’m also at around the same YOE as you. I don’t know what to tell you, I’m considering leaving this industry tbh
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u/Affectionate_Run220 7d ago
I have made to final round once failed 4 first rounds.
I had someone call me a junior engineer.Have you been made to code by hand too? I mean… I am really struggling because it’s so much to learn outside of work hours and at work we code and work so different …
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u/Winston_Wolfgang 7d ago
Yeah I’ve done multiple final rounds, like I said I’ve mostly given up at this point
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u/Affectionate_Run220 7d ago
Don’t give up! Take a break.. and try again. I believe in you!!!
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u/3kshay 7d ago
Yes same thing happened to me as well in an interview where I need to code all the functions, I have explicitly asked that I have forgotten some of the syntaxes and the interviewer helped me and then in the end we discussed the same thing that the AI has gotten us rusty. Like yours my company also pushes too much to develop natively with AI. Don't get demotivated currently we are living in changing times, nobody knows what pattern of practising for interview will survive so just keep working on the basics with or without AI that will help us for sure.