i’m a computer engineering student wrapping up an internship at a name-brand company, and ive been applying to new grad/junior swe roles for like 10 months now. did the standard stuff too, cleaned up my resume, built projects, grinded leetcode, tailored apps when i had the bandwidth, messaged recruiters, kept linkedin alive, all that, and it still feels like im firing applications into drywall

what bugs me most is how the advice never changes. its always “numbers game” even when the market is obviously weird rn, and i can handle rejection, thats not even the part that gets me, its the ghosting, reposted listings, 4-6 round interview loops for entry level jobs, and job posts taht read like they want a mid-level engineer who will work for junior pay. after a while “just apply more” starts sounding detached from actual conditions

im not saying effort doesnt matter, it does, but i do think alot of us at the junior end are getting handed advice from a different hiring era and people keep repeating it because every thread about this is the same. maybe that worked a few years ago, i dont think it maps cleanly to 2025-2026

if youre in this search too, what has actually moved the needle for you? because blind application volume has been one of the least useful parts of this process for me

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Internship: https://github.com/PrepAIJobs/Summer2026-Internships/tree/main
Full Time: https://github.com/PrepAIJobs/New-Grad-2026/tree/main