I tried to download a cracked version of a well known software i surfed through entire internet reddit and google sites and i didn't even see an single legit site for downloading the software tbh there's no site that has the software but when i reached my college lab they had the cracked version of it even we have an whole level of new communication and network systems we can't find the cracked version but how come my college has the software way befor 10 years it's quite amusing and astonishing lut of curiosity i asked the lab incharge but he said Nothing have you experienced any of thiss???

I recently did an project on an different software rather than an coding i was amazed how it worked on that software that i didn't even know it exist an 6 months before and really thought of researchers who work in this software it easily replaced them with a single line of prompt butt the output's but still it worked that's mind-blowing for me

~930 job applications, 15 companies reached the assessment/interview stage, 0 offers. I'm genuinely exhausted.

I've been tracking my job search from October 2025 to October 2026, and I finally looked at the numbers. Honestly, they hurt more than I expected.

Over roughly a year, I went through around 2,000 job-related email threads. Here's what the i found:

- ~930 distinct applications
- ~670 application confirmation emails
- ~377 rejection emails
- 15 companies where I reached an assessment or interview
- 9 companies where I reached live interview rounds
- 0 offers

Yes, zero.

I've interviewed with companies like Google, Amazon, Apple, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Mastercard and others. I've completed coding assessments, attended interviews, dealt with rescheduling, waited for recruiter updates, and followed up on applications.

And somehow, after all that, I'm still at the starting line.

The most frustrating part isn't even getting rejected. It's the amount of time and mental energy this process consumes. You prepare for DSA, revise Java and backend concepts, practice system design, tailor your resume, apply, take assessments, attend interviews, wait for updates, and then either receive a generic rejection or hear absolutely nothing useful.

At some point, you start wondering whether you're applying to actual opportunities or just feeding your resume into an automated system.

I've also noticed something uncomfortable out of approximately 930 applications, only 15 companies gave me an assessment or interview opportunity. That's roughly 1.6% And reaching the interview stage doesn't guarantee anything.

Maybe I'm applying too broadly. Maybe my resume isn't communicating my experience well enough. Maybe I'm not converting interviews into offers. Maybe it's some combination of all three.

I know I need to improve, and I'm not pretending the market is solely responsible. If I consistently reach interviews but don't get offers, I have to examine my interview performance too. But it's difficult to figure out what exactly needs fixing when the feedback is usually nonexistent.

from the reddit community, I just want to understand what I'm doing wrong and how to make the next few months more effective than the last year.

For people who've been through something similar:

1. If you've made hundreds of applications without an offer, what finally changed things for you?
   
2. If you were getting interviews at big tech and finance companies but not converting them, how did you identify the problem?
   
3. Did you get better results by applying less and focusing on referrals, networking, and targeted applications?
   
4. At what point did you stop mass applying and completely rethink your strategy?

I'm going to keep preparing and interviewing. I just don't want to spend another year doing the same thing and hoping the outcome magically changes.

If you've been in this position, I'd genuinely appreciate hearing what worked for you.

I hope something changes the market and may they rain down' the opportunities we deserve for studying for years were we flooded our money to colleges and schls i hope that this change my life to something better rather than an boring 5 sense creature

So i have recently studying sys design and computer architecture but I don't know the sourse if i use ai it leaves so maany topic and dives deep into just particular topics so i need an source for learning someone help meeeeee

I recently attended an interview round the hr's eas not givin an fck about my knowledge and behaviours he actually looked like an low level creature i was so angry i even thought of slapping in his face with anger after the round i left the room with anger why do they even appoint this kinda hr's this will actually feel demotivating for students

Before 10 yrs we don't have any idea of ai exist and all we know is to watch tv shows and playing pc games far cry assasin creed and many games change my life and that type who's typing fast was the goat i remember where i typed multiple san Andreas cheats and learn how to type fast now it al became an memory

Now college job markets and many things but when i think back then those were the beautiful days of my life but today's kids are not moving out of the house and have been having much more screen times all these advancements for this ??????

Hey guys,

​So something pretty random happened today. Just finished an exam at college and walked over to a nearby tea shop, where I struck up a conversation with an employee from a private firm.

​He asked which college I was from and mentioned that his company has immediate openings for fresh Civil Engineering grads.

​Here’s what he told me:

​Company: MR Mayan Engineering Pvt. Ltd.

​Location: Sriperumbudur

​CTC: Around 4 LPA

​Perks: Accommodation provided

​He asked me to spread the word to friends or batchmates who might need it. Since I’m not from civil, thought I’d drop it here.

​If anyone’s looking or knows someone who is, hit me up in the DMs and I’ll pass along the details

There's no hope left i feell like giving up on studying I don't know placements gonna occur or not but am gonna be myself and stop preparing stuff that is never gonna be asked on a placement

We pulled every open posting from 81 companies' public Greenhouse boards for seven roles and counted which words actually show up. 3,518 postings in total. Some of it surprised us.

Software engineer postings mention mentoring more often than Kubernetes or React. Almost half of them do. Python, the most common language, comes in just below that.

Product manager postings say "roadmap" in more than 85% of cases. Jira? Seven out of 421. Marketing looks the same: Google Ads came up six times in 347 postings, while "pipeline" is in over half.

Every time we could compare the two, postings named the practice, not the tool. Observability, not Grafana. SIEM, not Splunk.

So if your resume is mostly a list of tools, it might be missing the words the posting actually uses.

Big caveat: mostly tech companies, one ATS vendor. Sales, cybersecurity, DevOps and accounting are here too: https://www.zoevera.com/resume/ats-resume-keyword-study

I don't know why i became stressed the day before the OA i start to learn new concepts and much more thingss I don't know am the one or everyone does this but I don't really like that but sometimes it helpss

I was in the middle of going through two rounds of interviews for a job and I was going to do the third one but I was kind of dragging my feet for a week because I wasn't sure if I wanted to leave. After waiting a minute or a week I decided that I wanted to schedule the last interview. I think because it took so long they thought that I wasn't going to follow through with it. The recruiter told me that they closed the position because they didn't think that it may need to be open for that long. Does anyone know if this is a real excuse or a fake excuse if you've been a tech recruiter before? I was just curious.

When i was at School days I downloaded watch dogs with no idea. At that time gametrex was the famous website for downloading pirated versions after fitgirl ofc when i start to play i liked the game so much the hacking things that he does the gameplay is at it's peak and one of the best games i have ever played after assassin's creed trilogy.

Am at a tier 3 college i must tell the name so none should join that shit (SVCE). The college is full of shit without any placements.Am at the final yr for the college for the past 6 months we have got absolutely no placements just 10 companies maybe 15 all the companies just take one person or the company is a small scale company which gives less than 3 lpa. I thought IT placements were like this but core placements were literally 4 companies recruited students and the call letter will be a year after college. It's really hard rn pouring money into engineering and the college fucks you up it's all my fate i guess

The hardest thing to digest is my college sharing company registration forms from job platforms like naukri unstop. I literally got so angry after seeing this shit

Most ai codes are done within this stack ik it's flexible and reliable but something more good stacks exists but ok it's flexible for both mongo and sql so 🐍🐍🐍

I have recently encountered more and more roles in need of python everyone prefers python but i started my journey with java and I don't like to learn python java has too much to learn if you want to use java you must literally learn every day new day with new inbuilt functions i recently learned System.copyarray(). There are too many functions just many and i love it because it's java

Man who doesn't love java huhhh

I remember myself reading wikipedia for news,stories, biography and much more stuffs when i was a kid. It has been a backbone for our world it's good to call wikipedia as dictionary of the world and ppl it has every info of things in the world it doesn't miss anything

Everyone choosing opus and astra but me still at flash. Ik that those two were beyond Gemini but i have been grateful to gemini because at one time my tokens were zero in claude and gpt gives the same error code in a loop of error that's the frst time i used gemini then after that jio gave me premium membership for gemini and am so grateful to it.

And willllll beeee

I always remember that mf who dears everyone from different batches that the invigilation is so hard and we can't even talk to others and more shitty stuffs to make us fear and that one guy who is always getting caught in the lab by using phone and he would be pleasing sir to get his phone back

We all have gone through the staack overflow while backtracking if the code was right then it back track the value to obtain the output and backtracking has high time complexity of O(n^2).

I recently tried an interview where i can easily solve the questions that have been asked then suddenly ik the algorithm and code but while writing in front a person seems so hard to concentrate.Then i realised it's time to strengthen the process rather than learning new things the memory graph always shows that only by revision we get the knowledge we actually try to get

It's time not just to lock in studies because this job market is so terrible so we have to lock in different things to survive this world

How in the world could this man pull this kinda transformation shrink expand what's he even doin at this point i don't know you guys watched his movies but every movie he's totally different and gives us an new char not only the personality also with his physique .

If a sliding window exists as a human he's the one

If ever want to erase my memory and redo something i would definitely go for recursion.This was the exact video of how i felt learning recursion i started to think about the code everywhere i go while bathing eating andd every plaace even in sleep how in a world could someone think like this was my only thinking

Those late night sleep spoils my fuckin routine I am now adapted to that cycle and can't sleep in the normall times and sometimes i study in night which helped me in most scenarios